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060724 2nd HR America Shining City On A Hill What It Meant And Most Important Thing About USA by Kate Dalley
EPISODE 112 | GESARA & the Red Caesar What do proposed economic reforms, the idea of a post-constitutional American dictator and Christian Nationalism have in common? Donald Trump, for starters - at least for some people. Scammers and grifters of all stripes find common ground with would-be authoritarians in a weird confluence of conspiracy narratives that hope to create and capitalize on chaos to further their own agendas. Like what we do? Then buy us a beer or three via our page on Buy Me a Coffee. #ConspiracyClearinghouse #sharingiscaring #donations #support #buymeacoffee You can also SUBSCRIBE to this podcast. Review us here or on IMDb! SECTIONS 02:00 - NESARA Nest Eggs - Harvey Francis Barnard drains the swamp, the Dove of Oneness swaps Judy "Zebra" Knight and Ramtha for the Omega Trust and becomes the first 9/11 "truther", various weirdos like Sheldan Nidle, Jennifer Lee, Sherry Shriner and channelers jump aboard and lay the groundwork for QAnon 10:26 - The GESARA that Lays the Golden Eggs - White Dragons, Alcuin Bramerton and other scammers promise an end to debt 13:39 - Solace in Quantum - The Quantum Financial System, Quantum AI, Comte St. Germain, lots of metals, the Alliance await Q Day 20:20 - Red Caesar - Kevin Slack hates modernism, loves the Roman Empire 23:54 - Caesarism - Tracing the term, the Claremont Institute is more dangerous than you suspect 27:56 - The Flight 93 Election - Alexander Michael Black likes Red Caesar, Michael Anton tortures a metaphor but finds a new career 33:36 - Haywood for Warlord - Shampoo king and "Maximum Leader" Charles Haywood founds the Society for American Civic Renewal, builds a compound and organizes private militias 38:14 - King of the Seven Mountains - Stephen Wolfe makes the case for Christian Nationalism, Lance Wallnau sells coins; Rafael Cruz, Paula White-Cain, Michele Bachman, Lauren Boebert and Mike Johnson scale the Seven Mountains 40:42 - A Clear and Present Danger - Trump's words vs his track record, a possible "revenge term", watch out for the sucker fish, Wisconsin tries to hobble Justice Janet Protasiewicz, North Carolina gives Gov-Ops sweeping powers, Ron DeSantis creates not one but two private militias 47:45 - True Grift - The monetization of narrative and attention, Trump is all things to all grifters, the future might be just more chaos or it might be something worse Music by Fanette Ronjat More Info Draining the Swamp: The NESARA Story by Harvey F. Barnard Conspiracy Watch: The Best Law Ever in Mother Jones Dove of Oneness/NESARA founder Shaini Goodwin page on Cult Education Institute website The Nesara Cult and Qanon's Origins video on Behind the Bastards Ramtha's School of Enlightenment website QAnon Teams Up With Alleged Cult Leader on Daily Beast Still waiting for NESARA? Draining the Swamp: Monetary and Fiscal Policy Reform by Harvey F. Barnard Galactic Human Activation Materials for sale Deepfake Quantum AI Investment Scam Pops Up on Facebook Nesara: The financial fantasy ruining lives on BBC Sounds Inside the QAnon Crypto Scam That Cost People Millions and One Man His Life Project Leap: Quantum-proofing the financial system by the Bank for International Settlements Project Leap pdf NESARA and The Mark of The Beast by Dr. Scott Young Scott Young's YouTube channel The Quantum Financial System Manual of GESARA-NESARA & XRP GESARA/QFS map Quantum Financial System (QFS): Revolutionizing Finance or Conspiracy Theory? on CoinCodex YouTube Prosperity at Risk: The Quantum Computer Threat to the US Financial System video from the Hudson Institute ( four white guys complaining) Exposing the Quantum AI Investment Scam on Blossom Social YouTube War on the American Republic: How Liberalism Became Despotism by Kevin Slack The Claremont Institute The Red Caesar Code: A guidebook for the installation of the American dictator by Alexander Michael Black Calls for an American Julius Caesar are ignorant, dangerous on R Street ‘Red Caesarism' is rightwing code – and some Republicans are listening in The Guardian Red Caesarism threatens democracy and the rule of law in the Concord Monitor The right's "Red Caesar" plan: GOP's new order marches onward — only voters can stop it on Salon Red Caesar and the Next Regime on Rick Wilson's substack The Flight 93 Election by Michael Anton ("Publius Decius Mus") After the Flight 93 Election: The Vote that Saved America and What We Still Have to Lose by Michael Anton Flight 93 and Our National Disease on Law & Liberty How Michael Anton's ‘Flight 93 Election' Essay Defined the Trump Era in New York Magazine Departing the Shining City from the Cato Institute The Crash of the Flight 93 Presidency on Politico The Stakes: America at the Point of No Return by Michael Anton Charles Haywood's review of Anton's The Stakes Up from Conservatism: Revitalizing the Right after a Generation of Decay by Arthur Milikh Society for American Civic Renewal (SACR) archived website The Worthy House - Towards a Politics of Future Past website by Charles Haywood US businessman is wannabe ‘warlord' of secretive far-right men's network in The Guardian The Case for Christian Nationalism by Stephen Wolfe The Rise of Right-Wing Wokeism (review of Wolfe's book) Beware the 'Christian Prince' (another review of Wolfe's book) Of Gods and Men: A Long Review of Wolfe's Case for Christian Nationalism (a long review of Wolfe's book) Televangelist's show sells $45 Trump coin as ‘point of contact' to God Pastor Paula White calls on angels from Africa and South America to bring Trump victory 'The Lord says it is done': White House spiritual adviser Paula White prays for 'angels from Africa' to cement Trump's re-election Tracing the rise of Christian nationalism, from Trump to the Ala. Supreme Court on NPR (audio) How Evangelicals Lose Will Make All the Difference Ali Velshi warns of the fringe Seven Mountains doctrine going Mainstream The Radical GOP's “Seven Mountains Mandate” on The Big Picture Trump-O-Meter on PolitiFact ‘A revenge term': what would another four years of Trump look like? from The Guardian Trump Warns He Could ‘Certainly' Indict Political Opponents if He's Reelected Ex-RNC Chair's Stark Warning on 'Threat' Posed by Donald Trump Impeach Justice Janet Protasiewicz? Here's what's missing from debate Wisconsin Republicans Walk Back Efforts to Impeach Newly Elected State Supreme Court Justice Protasiewicz North Carolina Republicans create "secret police force" NC lawmakers exempt themselves from public records laws while Democrats blast 'secret police' powers Ron DeSantis plans Florida paramilitary force outside federal control Governor Ron DeSantis Unveils the Florida State Guard The Dangers of DeSantis's Militia on the Southern Poverty Law Center America's most effective fascism enforcers are bored boomers, not youthful brawlers My QAnon Date Follow us on social: Facebook Twitter Other Podcasts by Derek DeWitt DIGITAL SIGNAGE DONE RIGHT - Winner of a 2022 Gold Quill Award, 2022 Gold MarCom Award, 2021 AVA Digital Award Gold, 2021 Silver Davey Award, 2020 Communicator Award of Excellence, and on numerous top 10 podcast lists. PRAGUE TIMES - A city is more than just a location - it's a kaleidoscope of history, places, people and trends. 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The fourth and final volume of the Anthems of al-Andalus series, John D. Cressler takes the reader to Spain and tells the tale of forbidden love during a bloody war that heralds the end of a golden age. As much a tale of fiction, it is also one of history, which most never learn about in the west. Most of modern Spain was under Muslim control from 711 to 1492 C.E. This time was one of deep influence in world events, including the rediscovery, translation and dissemination of the lost works of science, medicine, and philosophy of the ancient Greeks. The Umayyads were great lovers of books and learning, and the 10th and 11th centuries was a period of religious and spiritual acceptance, where Muslim, Jewish and Christian communities embraced one another. The three traditions sparked a cultural revolution. This discussion with host Lawrence Knorr provides insight into centuries past, and how faiths lived and grew together and inspired immense change, now seemingly lost. John D. Cressler is the Schlumberger Chair Professor in Electronics at Georgia Tech. His debut novel, "Emeralds of the Alhambra," was released by Sunbury Press in 2013, followed by "Shadows in the Shining City," and "Fortune's Lament." He is also the author of non-fiction works that include "Silicon-Germanium Heterojunction Bipolar Transistors," "Silicon Earth," and "Extreme Environment Electronics." You can find out more about him at his website.
This is an excerpt from the full episode "The Fall of the Republican Party: With Chris Vance."Michael Steele speaks with former Washington State Party Chairman, Chris Vance about his new book, "The Fall of the Shining City: What Happened to the Republican Party. Why it Happened. And What Must Happen Now to Save American Democracy.” The pair discuss third parties and creating a new faction of the GOP, whether or not the GOP will return to being a party of Reagan and where the party goes moving forward.Check out "The Fall of the Shining City" here: https://www.amazon.com/Fall-Shining-City-Republican-Happened/dp/B0CW2LVM1CIf you enjoyed this podcast, be sure to leave a review or share it with a friend!Follow Chris Vance @ChrisVance123Follow Michael @MichaelSteeleFollow the podcast @steele_podcast
Michael Steele speaks with former Washington State Party Chairman, Chris Vance about his new book, "The Fall of the Shining City: What Happened to the Republican Party. Why it Happened. And What Must Happen Now to Save American Democracy.” The pair discuss third parties and creating a new faction of the GOP, whether or not the GOP will return to being a party of Reagan and where the party goes moving forward.Check out "The Fall of the Shining City" here: https://www.amazon.com/Fall-Shining-City-Republican-Happened/dp/B0CW2LVM1CIf you enjoyed this podcast, be sure to leave a review or share it with a friend!Follow Chris Vance @ChrisVance123Follow Michael @MichaelSteeleFollow the podcast @steele_podcast
Alex speaks about his lost friend and the many people in the headlines today who have suffered the same fate. As originally published in Medium. Image designed by the author with assistance from AI. "All the Fits That's News": Alex's Substack (Free) Alex Greenwood on Medium: https://a-greenwood.medium.com/ (Subscription) Follow him on X/Twitter: @A_Greenwood Follow him on Threads: https://www.threads.net/@alexginkc Catch Alex's True Crime Show: GOING TO KILLING CITY. Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and wherever you get your pods! Enjoyed the episode? Please leave us a review on your podcast platform of choice, and don't forget to subscribe for more literary journeys! LEAVE A REVIEW ON APPLE PODCASTS For show notes and more, visit the show website at MGOPod.com. "Holiday Weasel" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This Mysterious Goings On Podcast episode was recorded and mixed at Green Shebeen Studios in beautiful Kansas City, Missouri. Copyright 2023, all rights reserved. No reproduction, excerpting, or other use without written permission. We are an Amazon Associates seller, and some of our links may earn us a commission. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/j-alexander-greenwood/message
This episode of The Power Current is somewhat unique. Host Chris Berry has an editorial piece he wrote which, unfortunately, was not picked up by a publisher. Instead, we take the opportunity for Chris to share his editorial, here, on his own podcast. In this piece, Chris asks the questions regarding America's technological advances in battery technology. Is the United States the shining city on the hill, in regards to R&D of batteries? Or is it losing the battle to foreign countries, including its geopolitical adversaries? The piece leaves lots of questions for the listener to ponder.
The American Southwest is a place like no other – culturally, economically, and even politically. Dowd Muska, with the Southwest Public Policy Institute joined the program to talk about what makes the American Southwest – and Nevada specifically – such a unique place to call home, and why it's so well positioned to be a shining example for the rest of the nation.
We conclude our Die mini-campaign! With two paragons down, and the world growing ever more unstable, our players find themselves in a race to determine whose votes will count. And more importantly, what they are each prepared to do in order to secure their own. Reynolds takes to the skies. Robin interrupts a royal's personal time in her search for shelter. Imogeen stalks the Shining City in search of paragons. Jericho gives one last gift. Player Intrusion: Stace: Ghosted (https://tv.apple.com/us/movie/ghosted/umc.cmc.6nodv9rf3ltfk2ar3pfc8hced) Your cast: GM/Jeremy/Jericho/The Master: Daniel (https://www.explorerswanted.fm/hosts/daniel) Reynolds/Renard Sampson (https://www.explorerswanted.fm/hosts/sampson) Robin/Joker: Alex (https://www.explorerswanted.fm/hosts/alex) Imogeen/Turgon the Terrible: Stace (https://www.explorerswanted.fm/hosts/stace) Music Theme music: Ninth World by Dave Sterling (https://www.mixcloud.com/davesterling/). Previously On by Monument Studios Run by Monument Studios Zombie Loading Screen by Monument Studios Conspiracy Theme by Monument Studios Following Clues by GameDevArts Icy Waiting Theme by Monument Studios Marty Gots A Plan by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/4992-marty-gots-a-plan License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Tension by Monument Studios Hybrid Anticipation by Monument Studios Welcome to the Fire by Willyecho / via Audiio Vague Atmos by Monument Studios Villain Bass Evolve by Monument Studios Red Room by Monument Studios Planetary Threat by Monument Studios Emotional Atmos C by Monument Studios Outbreak by Monument Studios Reborn by Dark Fantasy Studio Don't Look Down by Rags and Riches / via Audiio In The Aftermath by Michael Rothery / via Adobe Stock Memorize Your Face by Animal Assassins / via Audiio A Creeping Suspicion by Colton Dewberry / via Audiio The Haunting by Monument Studios Additional sound effects and ambience by Audio Alchemist, Dark Fantasy Studio, Krotos, Monument Studios, Savage, and y89312 (https://freesound.org/people/y89312/sounds/139875/) on Freesound. Production Editing: Daniel Transcription: Stace Safety in Role-playing It is essential that everyone playing in a game feels safe and is having fun. We've compiled a brief list of the safety tools we use here (https://www.explorerswanted.fm/safety). As always, see our standard disclaimer (https://www.explorerswanted.fm/disclaimer).
After a pitched battle with the circus, our heroes journey towards the Shining City in search of a magic gem. Imogeen has her Thor moment. Reynolds negotiates with a trickster god whose pranks are wearing thin. Robin orders off the menu. Player Intrusion: Sampson: Blue Lock (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15222080/) Your cast: GM/Jeremy/Jericho/The Master: Daniel (https://www.explorerswanted.fm/hosts/daniel) Reynolds/Renard Sampson (https://www.explorerswanted.fm/hosts/sampson) Robin/Joker: Alex (https://www.explorerswanted.fm/hosts/alex) Imogeen/Turgon the Terrible: Stace (https://www.explorerswanted.fm/hosts/stace) Music Theme music: Ninth World by Dave Sterling (https://www.mixcloud.com/davesterling/). Production Editing: Daniel Transcription: Stace Safety in Role-playing It is essential that everyone playing in a game feels safe and is having fun. We've compiled a brief list of the safety tools we use here (https://www.explorerswanted.fm/safety). As always, see our standard disclaimer (https://www.explorerswanted.fm/disclaimer).
Gov. Chris Sununu jumps on the pod just after signing an executive order taking on the Biden administration's new ESG investing rule. State agencies will not participate, Sununu says, and he explains why.Sununu also talks about why a Republican who has largely tried to avoid culture war debates has no problems embracing the Second Amendment, signing pro-2A laws that give him perhaps the strongest record in the potential 2024 field.Plus, his take on Democrats taking their 2024 convention to their version of the Shining City on the Hill -- Chicago.And host Michael Graham has a rant or two about the state of political play in New Hampshire, and why Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is going to be a major headache for Biden and the NHDems.
Carmen outlines how we respond when a business fails us as a consumer and being people that don't let a root of resentment take root in our hearts and instead choose to extend forgiveness. Political scientist Daniel Bennett shares about the large amount of hesitancy when it comes to international engagement and finding why we actually want to care about other people. Click here for today's show notes Faith Radio podcasts are made possible by your support. Give now: Click here
UNIVERSITY OF EXCELLENCE Prince HandleyPresident / Regent PRINCE HANDLEY PORTAL 1,000's of FREE ResourcesWWW.REALMIRACLES.ORG INTERNATIONAL Geopolitics | Intelligence | Prophecy WWW.UOFE.ORG CHANGING DEMONGRAPHICSFERTILITY, CLIMATE , GEOPOLITICS & FEDCOINYou can listen to the above message NOW.LISTEN HERE >>> LISTEN NOW24/7 release of Prince Handley teachings, BLOGS and podcasts > STREAM Twitter: princehandley Subscribe FREE to Prince Handley Teaching and Newsletter ________________________________________ WARNING The world—as you know it—is about to be changed dramatically and permanently! In this teaching we will discuss four (4) dynamic social-economic and geopolitical changes that are currently developing with substantive force: Fertility and Families Climate Change and Globalism Down with the West Fedcoin and the End of Privacy Prophecy is the foreknowledge of what future society and humans will choose to do. All of the four CHANGES give occasion for oppressive controls. BUT―if you exercise FAITH―you will learn HOW to escape, protect and empower yourself. ________________________________________ CHANGING DEMONGRAPHICSFERTILITY, CLIMATE, GEOPOLITICS & FEDCOIN People change their minds … so do nations. Trends develop as multiple minds change in like persuasion. Some trends reappear after decades … some after centuries. However, we are reminded in Scripture that “God is not human that He should lie, not a human being that he should change His mind.” (Numbers 23:19) The Bible teaches clearly that there are demonic authorities and spiritual forces that rule in the atmosphere and have positions of authority over geopolitical confines such as described in the Book of Daniel: the fallen (evil) “prince over Persia” (modern day Iran) and the fallen (evil) “prince over Greece.” (Daniel 10:20-21). This is still true today! There are assigned Satanic forces [principalities, powers and dominions] that are delegated to specific geographic areas. SO WHAT SHOULD YOU DO? BIND THESE FORCES WITH PROPHETIC DECREES FOR YOUR FAMILY ~ YOUR CITY & COUNTRY ~ YOUR FUTURE ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ HOW WILL YOU KNOW IT WORKS? WATCH GOD REWARD YOU ACROSS THE BOARD WATCH FOR GOOD CHANGE IN AREAS WHERE YOU FOCUS In this teaching we will discuss four (4) dynamic social-economic and geopolitical changes that are developing with substantive force at present: Fertility and Families Climate Change and Globalism Down with the West Fedcoin and the End of Privacy Nazi political theologian Carl Schmitt said “Soveriegn is he who decides the state of emergency.” Economist Milton Friedman said, “Only a crisis, real or perceived, produces real change.” Never let a crisis go to waste means “Create a CRISIS to make CHANGE!” ■ FERTILITY AND FAMILIES: SINGLE AND SPERMLESS Human longevity is trending for most of the nations. A quick examination of population studies shows increased aging which is probably due to increased prosperity and new medical developments. The global population is aging. Life expectancy has increased to 70 years or more in many countries. In 2020, for the first time in recorded history individuals aged 60 or older outnumbered children under the age of five! These remarkable gains are due to improved public health, better nutrition, better healthcare and, most recently, employing technological innovations, big data and artificial intelligence to improve healthy life expectancy and meet the demands of an aging population. People are living longer which is—or at least has been in the past―a blessing! The World Economic Forum (WEF) says the biggest benefit technology can have on aging and longevity is creating opportunities for people to connect. BUT THEN WATCH HOW THIS CONNECTION WILL TRY TO USE THIS TO CONTROL THE AGED … AND YOU! In 2015 one-in-five households provided care to an elderly or disabled individual who required assistance. By 2030 only one-in-two households will provide care to the elderly who need it. Humans (that would be most of YOUR neighbors probably) have CHANGED their minds about caring for the aged … AND about having children! PLUS … families as we have known them are under attack. Children―in the eyes of many people today worldwide ...especially in Fascist run countries―are NOT thought to be a blessing of the Lord. “Children are a heritage from the Lord, offspring a reward from him.” (Psalm 127:3) In addition, decreasing fertility is a worldwide trend at this time! Plus, many globalists like Bill Gates want to decease world population. And many people are deciding NOT to have children … or even to marry. Female fertility has declined in recent years AND male sperm counts are also decreasing. Less population―even with increased AI and robotic production―along with increased length of life will create a social-economic tsunami worldwide … EXCEPT for the People who know their God! ■ CLIMATE CHANGE AND GLOBALISM: FACT OR FINANCE Climate change and Green Energy have―since 2020―seriously damaged the economies of most nations. Check out my teaching on Climate Legislation: the Inconvenient Untruth where I discuss TWO (2) postulates concerning Climate Change that are never covered by environmentalists, the media, or authors on the subject. Also, several resources are available for further study. Hopefully, IF you are involved in environmentalism―expending time or money―you may find another way to be more effective in helping Planet Earth and its inhabitants. Global emissions like CO2 and methane are rising but as far as the USA is concerned our position should be “Let China and India clean up their mess first, and we'll wait until they catch up.” Both China and India persecute and murder Christians. Do you really expect them to be emissions honest and friendly? None of the anti-carbon referendums proposed today are backed by scientific proof. This CHANGE will NOT make a difference EXCEPT to strap you with CONTROL and ESG social scores … plus do away with lots of enjoyable lifestyle. For example the "seeming" correlation of temperature to CO2 in the atmosphere. Al Gore states ... and thereby presupposes ... that the CO2 present in the atmosphere is causal to the rise or fall of temperature. When, the reverse is true: it is the temperature―the sun has a lot to do with this!!!―which is the casual effect for the amount of CO2 present in the atmosphere. Gloabalists―most of the nations―have CHANGED to dance along with the Climate Alarmists. In 19 of the “developed” countries the public views climate change as the TOP global threat. How did this come about? Trick #1 ~ Climate Change is a lucrative enterprise. And don't forget politicians. Trick #2 ~ Global Warming allows governments to control you. IT'S ABOUT MONEY AND CONTROL ■ DOWN WITH THE WEST: FASCISM VS. FREEDOM Biden, the Great Divider―used by Satan―has helped to destroy the prominence of the USA. The EU and America are now competitors with the rest of the world: India, China, Russia, Asia and others. What brought this CHANGE about? As a result of USA and Europe imposing sanctions on Russia because of its invasion of Ukraine financial systems were shut down BUT this backfired. WHY? Other countries became fearful that US and EU might shut them down in the future … and so, they decided never to be “locked in” economically and financially by the Western nations. The USA is no longer the “Shining City on the Hill” but is now a competitor with many of our previous allies, at least economically and financially. This will result in MAJOR CHANGE in banking, currency, global trade and “financial balance.” Setting up a bartering network could be a really good avenue since now we trade time or skills for monopoly money to then trade that money for goods and other services. It seems like the time to get rid of the middle man. Planting your own food, saving seeds from everything you buy and learning to live off the grid will be very helpful in the future. ■ FEDCOIN AND THE END OF PRIVACY Watch out for CBDC (Central Bank Digital Currency) or Fedcoin. The government will use an excuse of “regulation around crypto currency” as one way to push this agenda. CitiGroup, MasterCard and six other institutions are trying to digitize actual physical dollars. ESG is now masking itself as ETI, or Economically Targeted Investments. If you have a 401-k this will no longer be “Your Best Investment.” ETI will go “Hand-In-Hand” with Fed Coin AND it will be the end of financial freedom. Fedcoin is NOT be an actual coin. Instead, it is a special account created and maintained for each American by the Federal Reserve. Each month, Fed employees could tap a few keys on a computer and each American would have dollars added to his Federal Reserve account. Fedcoin could effect private cryptocurrencies. Also, it would limit the ability of private citizens to protect themselves from the Federal Reserve-caused decline in the dollar's value. Dr. Ron Paul says, “Fedcoin is a New Scheme for Tyranny and Poverty.” Fedcoin would NOT magically increase the number of available goods and services. What it would do is drive up prices. The damage this would do to middle and lower income Americans would dwarf any benefit they receive from their monthly “gift” from the Fed. The rise in prices could lead to Congress regularly increasing Fedcoin payments to Americans. These increases would cause prices to keep rising even more until we face hyperinflation and a dollar crisis. Fedcoin poses a great threat to privacy. The Federal Reserve could know when Fedcoin is used, who is using it, and what YOU use it for. This information could be shared with government agencies, such as the FBI or IRS. The government could use the ability to know how Americans are spending Fedcoin to limit our ability to purchase goods and services disfavored by politicians and bureaucrats. Anyone who doubts this should recall the Obama Administration's Operation Choke Point. Operation Choke Point involved financial regulators “alerting” banks that dealing with certain businesses, such as gun stores, would put the banks at “reputational risk” and could subject them to greater regulation. Is it so hard to believe that the ability to track purchases would be used in the future to “discourage” individuals from buying guns, fatty foods, or tobacco, or from being customers of corporations whose CEOs are not considered “woke” by the thought police? Fedcoin could also be used to “encourage” individuals to patronize “green” business, thus fulfilling Fed Chair Jerome Powell's goal of involving the Fed in the fight against climate change. Fedcoin could threaten private cryptocurrencies, increase inflation, and give government new powers over our financial transactions. Fedcoin will also speed up CHANGE for destruction of the fiat money system. Whatever gain Fedcoin may bring to average Americans will come at terrible cost to liberty and prosperity. A cashless society would be the death nail for liberty and freedom, offering centralization―the likes of which Marx and Lenin could only dream. The existence of a government backdoor or spyware becomes a real possibility and with the government's track record, a probability. The ability to track, freeze, and even set expiration dates on money will be marketed as “features” to protect the public. ■ SO WHAT ARE YOU TO DO WITH ALL THESE CHANGES Prophecy is the foreknowledge of what future society and humans will choose to do. You are going to have to LISTEN to God more than ever before. Do NOT let fear overtake you. Implement the following and check them off when you do: [ ] Make prophetic decrees (Study the book Prophecy, Transition and Miracles) [ ] Establish bartering influence (Do you have a skill or product or services?) [ ] Get off the grid as much as possible [ ] Do NOT live in a Smart City or Smart HOA [ ] Have a prayer or cell group that you trust [ ] Use a safe VPN and use ProtonMail while you can [ ] Protect your assets Study the following messages by Prince Handley: Anointed Slowdown: Preparation for Your Future Disciplina: Knowledge and Order … End Time Revelation How Prophecy Can Change Churches and Nations Study my book >>> PROPHECY, TRANSITION AND MIRACLES Be an instrument of CHANGE for yourself, your progeny and your nation … for MIRACLES. Trust Messiah Yeshua (Jesus) to lead you by His Spirit and in His Word! Baruch haba b'Shem Adonai. Your friend,Prince Handley President / RegentUniversity of Excellence CLICK HERE FOR:PRINCE HANDLEY PODCAST APP ... 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In one of this year's sleeper races, Alabama elected its first female senator to the US Senate, Katie Britt. And she delivered the best acceptance speech of the week. Boyd looks at her inclusive message of hope. Plus, Boyd delivers some final thoughts on Veteran's Day. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
SAMPLER & SANS REPROCHES (Radio Transmission)Playlist N° 1262... - Lundi 31 Octobre 2022 - Horaire : 20:00 >> 22:00EBM - SYNTHWAVE - INDUSTRIAL & RELATED MUSICGALAXIE RADIO 95.3FM www.galaxieradio.fr----------------------------------------->[ NON STOP MUSIC – NON STOP MUSIC – NON STOP MUSIC ... + S&SR Selection de la semaine...THE RORSCHACH GARDEN "Stealth Black" (Ant-Zen) ] < Artiste - Titre - Version - Format - Production - Label > THE RORSCHACH GARDEN "Melancholic Days" DIG LP: Stealth Black (Ant-Zen) SICK JOKES "This Is The Beginning (Stabbing Westward Remix)" DIG EP: Age Of Anxiety (COP international) INTENT:OUTTAKE "Tic Toc Tod (Damascus Knives Cut)" DIG EP: Tic Toc Tod (Scanner) NAVIGATOR "Breathe" CD: Breathe (Space Race Records) URBAN MATRIX "Was Weißt Du Über Deine Freunde?" DIG EP: Alles Bereit! (Autoproduction) DATA-BANK-A "The Shining City" DIG LP: Speech Therapy (True Age Records) LIEBKNECHT "Oberhausen" DIG EP: 527.039 (Science Cult) THE RORSCHACH GARDEN "Imaginary World" DIG LP: Stealth Black (Ant-Zen) MATTHEW CREED "Love Is Just Another Stab In The Back (Aesthetische Mix)" DIG EP: Love Is Just Another Stab In The Back (Alfa Matrix) ZIRKULAR DION "Дым" DIG LP: Chernye Rty (Detriti Records) CLAN OF XYMOX "The Great Reset (ASSEMBLAGE 23 Remix)" DIG EP: Big Brother (Metropolis) PENDING POSITION "Körper Auf Körper (ES23 Remix)" DIG EP: Körper Auf Körper (reMixed) (Infacted Recordings) UNISONLAB "Approximate (MASCHINE BRENNT Remix)" DIG LP: Random Access (Razgrom Music) TOO DEAD TO DIE "In The Dark [B-Side]" DIG EP: In The Dark (Out Of Line) CIRCUIT3 "Overview Effect (Radio Edit) DIG EP: Overview Effect (AnalogueTrash Records) REAKTON "Kommunikation" DIG LP: Micro: Macro: Nano (Out Of Line) DSM-V "Flash of Light" DIG SGL: Flash of Light (Third Coming Records) HOLOGRAM TEEN "Teen Beats Highway" DIG LP: Day-Glo Chaos (Ransom Note) ETHAN FAWKES & DREADFOOL "Some Fall" DIG EP: Some Fall (Nu Body Records) SOLITARY EXPERIMENTS "Wonderland" DIG SGL: Wonderland (Out Of Line) ATTRITION "ShrinkWrap" DIG LP: Demonstro 1982 - 85 (Peripheral Minimal) DEATHLINE INTERNATIONAL "Tainted Love (John Fryer Remix)" DIG V/A: Bleak Is Our Favorite Cliché [A Soft Cell & Marc Almond Tribute] (Coitus Interruptus Productions) BLACK NEEDLE NOISE "DollHouse On Fire (Feat. Ruby Friedman & Colin McGuinness)" DIG EP: Fair Winds (COP international) TRENTEMOLLER "Into The Silence (feat. DiSA) DIG SGL: Into The Silence (In My Room) DEMOKRATIE "Recession (A Modern Effigy Remix)" DIG EP: (the extended) Recession (Speccio Uomo) HER NOISE IS VIOLENCE "Nuclear Age" DIG EP: Out Of Time (Brutal Resonance Records) ELECTROSET "How Does It Feel? (Theme From Techno Blues)" DIG SGL: How Does It Feel? (FFRR / London Recordings) PROMO REMERCIEMENTS: ANT-ZEN (Stefan Alt), COP INTERNATIONAL (Christian Petke), DARK DIMENSIONS LABEL GROUP (Frank), SPACE RACE RECORDS / EK PRODUCT (IL Grande... Amedeo Marchese), URBAN MATRIX (Ash), OUT OF LINE MUSIC (Iris), UTM MUSIC GROUP (Michel Rowland), THIRD COMING RECORDS (Louis X. Legris), RANSOM NOTE RECORDS (Aiden d'Araujo), NU BODY RECORDS (Ethan Fawkes), ATTRITION (Martin Bowes), IN MY ROOM / SEN MUSIC (Philipp), MM PROMO (James Knights), BRUTAL RESONANCE RECORDS (Steven Gullotta) ...PODCAST: ITUNES :https://podcasts.apple.com/fr/podcast/sampler-sans-reproches/id1511413205 MIXCLOUD : https://www.mixcloud.com/SetSRradio/PODCLOUD :https://podcloud.fr/studio/podcasts/sampler-et-sans-reproches DEEZER :https://www.deezer.com/fr/show/1181282 GALAXIE RADIO http://galaxieradio.fr/ go to replay Sampler & Sans ReprochesAMAZON MUSIC https://music.amazon.fr/podcasts/9718c2fe-d841-4339-a3e5-82c31d018ed7/SAMPLER-SANS-REPROCHESARCHIVE.ORG https://archive.org/download/s-sr-1262-31.10.2022/S%26SR1262-31.10.2022.mp3
In this very special episode, Cedric sits down with Michael Saylor to discuss how Bitcoin is a union that offers hope for the individual struggling against the oppressive force of the collective and why it is the best chance we have to heal our world and rise above the chaos. Michael Saylor is the Executive Chairman of MicroStrategy (MSTR), a publicly traded business intelligence firm that he founded in 1989. He is also the founder of Alarm.com (ALRM), named inventor on 40+ patents, & author of the book “The Mobile Wave”. He founded & serves as trustee for the Saylor Academy (saylor.org), a non-profit organization that has provided free education to over 1 million students. He is an advocate for the Bitcoin Standard (hope.com). He has dual degrees from MIT in Aerospace Engineering & History of Science. What if you didn't have to pay healthcare premiums anymore? What if you could invest in bitcoin instead? With CrowdHealth, you can put aside money for health expenses in your own account, and even hold a large part of it in bitcoin — if bitcoin goes up, you get the upside — not big insurance companies. Pay one low monthly total to fund an account that is YOURS. Choose your doctors, get great healthcare, and hold up to 75% of the balance in Bitcoin every month. If a large expense comes up, CrowdHealth will help negotiate and crowdfund the bill for you. Stop supporting the broken health insurance system with your hard-earned capital. Go to joincrowdhealth.com and use code MATRIX now and experience freedom from health insurance by utilizing Bitcoin Right now you can get your first six months for just $99 per month. That's just a fraction of high deductible insurance plans Go to joincrowdhealth.com and use code MATRIX to sign-up. That's joincrowdhealth.com promo code MATRIX. CrowdHealth is not health insurance. It's a totally different way of paying for healthcare. Terms and Conditions may apply. Make sure to search for Bitcoin Matrix in your podcast app and click subscribe! And if you have the time please leave a review whereever you listen. Check the Bitcoin Matrix out on Fountain here: https://fountain.fm/show/8jJhCIKzojSARTePnCxM Subscribe to the Bitcoin Matrix on YouTube at tinyurl.com/bitcoinonyoutube Follow Michael Saylor on Twitter: @Saylor Check out hope.com for more incredible bitcoin resources Follow Cedric Youngelman on Twitter: @CedYoungelman Follow the Bitcoin Matrix Podcast on Twitter: @_BitcoinMatrix
A shining city upon a hill. That is how President Reagan described the United States...
A shining city upon a hill. That is how President Reagan described the United States...
A shining city upon a hill. That is how President Reagan described the United States...
It is reprehensible that this administration and the press are ok with threatening protests outside Supreme Court Justices' homes. It's all designed to intimidate the high courts' possible ruling on abortion. The fact that the DOJ is slow to act on Section 18USC1507, which prohibits protest near a “residence occupied or used by [a] judge, juror, witness, or court officer” with the...
It is reprehensible that this administration and the press are ok with threatening protests outside Supreme Court Justices' homes. It's all designed to intimidate the high courts' possible ruling on abortion. The fact that the DOJ is slow to act on Section 18USC1507, which prohibits protest near a “residence occupied or used by [a] judge, juror, witness, or court officer” with the...
Matthew Broderick is currently appearing opposite his wife, Sarah Jessica Parker, in the hit Broadway revival of Neil Simon's Plaza Suite. He made his stage debut at 17 in Horton Foote's On Valentine's Day (opposite his father, James Broderick), and quickly became one of the most respected and beloved actors of his generation. Broadway credits include Brighton Beach Memoirs (Tony, OCC, Theatre World awards), Biloxi Blues, How to Succeed in Business... (Tony, DD, OCC awards), Night Must Fall, Taller Than a Dwarf, The Producers (Tony, DD, OCC nominations) The Foreigner, The Philanthropist, The Odd Couple, Nice Work If You Can Get It, Sylvia and It's Only a Play. Off-Broadway, Mr. Broderick has appeared in The Seafarer, The Closet, Evening at the Talk House, Shining City (Obie Award), Torch Song Trilogy (OCC, Villager awards), The Widow Claire, and in the recent London production of The Starry Messenger. Selected film and television credits include: Max Dugan Returns, WarGames, 'Master Harold'...and the Boys, Ladyhawke, On Valentine's Day, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Biloxi Blues, Glory, The Freshman, A Life in the Theater, The Lion King, The Cable Guy, Infinity, Election, You Can Count on Me, Wonderful World, The Music Man, Margaret, Tower Heist, Rules Don't Apply, Manchester by the Sea and To Dust. Mr Broderick will next be seen in Painkiller for Netflix. Photo credit: Tawni Bannister
My guest today is host of the ever growing podcast, We The People, Our American Stories, Tina McCafferty. Her show focuses on American heros as she sees them, from members of the military, entreprenuers and immigrants, to the every day Joe. So apparently, today, she thinks I'm a hero of sorts. We introduce our audiences to each other and discuss the reason for each of our podcasts. We also talk about how we both are doing our part to help this great country remain the shining city on the hill. We laugh, we cry as we more fully understand our why. #WeThePeopleOurAmericanStories #IAmPitts #ParrishTheThoughtPodcast #ParrishTheThought #TinaMcCafferty #ShiningCityOnAHill #GeorgeWashington #Othering #WeMustTalk #TalkToEachOther #America #AmericanHero #WoundedWarriors #OEW #OperationEnduringWarrior #DexterPitts #FoundingFathers #SacredCountry #GodsChildren #ChildrenOfGod #TheStoryTrek #YouGottaStory --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/parrishthethought/message
Let us take you for a stroll Off-Broadway to two fantastic shows: Penelope and Shining City!
Join us for a chat with Erin McNerney and Sean Ricciardi, the producers and artistic directors of Everything's a Six Productions. We chat about their latest show, Connor McPherson's Shining City among other exciting things for this brand new theatre company!For more information about Everything's a Six Productions visit shiningcitynyc.com
Today on The Doug Collins Podcast, I continue our look back at the final speeches of our Presidents with a discussion of Ronald Regan's final speech in 1989. He lays out what is missing in so many political discussions today, a concern for people and the freedoms we have. It is a great reminder that each generation must take seriously the call to remember the greatness of our country and what it takes to keep it special. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
There is no doubt, at least to my mind, that we're living through some kind of a mass hysteria event. Writing on his site, John Kass says:A weak president who is out of control, one who wildly denounces those who disagree with him as sinners against the state, blaming them for the failures of his extreme legislative agenda that can not generate enough votes in the Senate is not a hopeful business. It is a frightening thing. It is something out of bad paranoid fiction, or post-war Eastern Europe. But it is not fiction or history. It seeps from the babbling old man in the White House.Most Americans aren't worried about looking for racists on every block. They don't think America is consumed by racial hate. They think America is a nice country. They like living here. They're worried about other matters. They wonder why Biden and the Democrats won't address their concerns.The people are worried about inflation, not racist witches. After those wild spending and money-printing sprees from Washington, inflation is now higher than it has been in 40 years. It is eating a hole in their bank accounts, college funds and retirement savings. The people see the rising price of gas and wonder how long they'll be able to afford meat.They're worried about confusion over vaccine mandates and vax passes and their kids being locked out of school in the lockdown blue states, of babies ordered to wear masks.What they're not worried about are the screams of the witch hunters, or whether to play some old-timey Democratic political game like “race cards.” They have lives.Anyone can be seen as a Domestic Terrorist by Biden and Merrick Garland. Parents who protest school boards, anyone who might not want to take the vaccine. Anyone who objects to the practice of teaching “antiracism” to children, or even people who might object to gender theory being taught to their kids. If you misgender someone you can be banned for hate speech on Twitter. Is that now going to be the law of the land? Do the citizens have any right to dissent or object? Worse, the Biden administration doesn't seem to understand that the whole world is watching. They're watching him confused and angry, demanding his citizens comply with his orders. So insular and disconnected from reality are Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer, not to mention the journalist class in the mainstream and the Blue Checks on Twitter, that they're actually trying to sell the pitch that a bunch of rag-tag rioters, who were unarmed, had the power to bring down the mighty United States - to threaten our Democracy and to present any sort of challenge whatsoever to the most powerful military in the world. Imagine what Vladimir Putin makes of that. Or Xi Jingping. Or the Taliban leaders. Either they're laughing at us or they're kicking themselves for not realizing just how vulnerable the United States government actually is. These aren't leaders. Writing on his Substack, Serve to Lead's James Strock goes through how past leaders might have navigated January 6th to illustrate just how weak American leadership has become. From George Washington:Would Washington have toyed with a mob from the White House—and not acted to forestall violence? This was the president who put down the Whiskey Rebellion.Would Washington have fled the throngs marauding the Capitol halls? Would he have slipped onto an underground tram, repaired to an office building a quarter-of-a-mile away, barricaded himself in a bathroom in a colleague's office, and tweeted that he was traumatized?Would he have failed to recognize an oligarchy brazenly striking at the foundation of the Bill of Rights? Washington's generation knew oligarchy and feared and fought it. Recall that the British East India Company owned the product that was thrown overboard in the Boston Tea Party.And Teddy Roosevelt:Were he a member of Congress, would he have allowed a police officer, perhaps one not equipped in riot gear, to shield him from danger?On Monday, October 14, 1912, Roosevelt took a bullet to the chest, fired at point-blank range. The aging former president then spoke, without a microphone, for well over an hour, before accepting medical care.Would any of the strongest leaders of this country project such an image of weakness to the rest of the world just to score political points? You think your average person on the Left looks foolish walking into a supermarket in a hazmat suit, imagine what the rest of the world thought of Nancy Pelosi's Green Zone occupation of DC after Janaury 6th. We look like freaked out, hysteria-driven lunatics who can't handle someone using the wrong pronoun or words that make us feel unsafe, let alone a riot that was not even as bad as the riots that followed the protests for months in the Summer of 2020. Whole businesses were burned to the ground. Dozens were killed. It was the closest thing to an actual revolution we've seen since the founding of the United States yet this one riot, in a futile, and frankly sad, effort to decertify the election count might have looked scary as portrayed on MSNBC but close up it was nothing this country hasn't seen many times before. Like in 2011 in Wisconsin and Michigan when protesters breached the Capitol to protest a vote on labor.Like the actual bombing of the Capitol by the weatherman in the 1970s. The difference was for four years the media had sold Trump and his supporters as domestic terrorists, White Supremacists and Nazi Brown Shirts. Your average Trump supporter holding a Trump flag and an American flag is an image Americans were already conditioned to fear. Had they never gone into the Capitol at all it still would have been to many the most frightening thing they'd seen in their lifetimes.This is not to diminish what happened on January 6th. No doubt it was terrifying for those who lived through it, but it is how they connected it to what they believe is a “white supremacist” uprising that ties into a greater wave of hysteria and fear. Fold in the idea that only Trump supporters are anti-vaxxers and anti-maskers and you have a full blown dehumanization campaign aimed at one group of people.Witches, Witches Everywhere. In the book Pendulum: How Generations of the Past Shape Our Present and Predict Our Future, which is a loose interpretation of Neil Howe's The Fourth Turning, Howe's 80-year generational theory is divided into four 20 year-cycles, from a “me” cycle (individualism) to the “we” cycle (collectivism). The authors Michael Drew and Roy Williams warned of what they call the “witch hunt phase.” As the “we” cycle winds down, the purges begin. Even though the book was written in 2011 or thereabouts, they tag the year 2023 as the height of our “witch hunt phase,” writing:Senator Joseph McCarthy was an American promoter of this witch-hunt attitude at America's most recent “We” Zenith of 1943 (see the “House Un-American Activities Committee,” 1937–1953); Adolf Hitler was the German promoter (see the Holocaust, 1933–1945); and Joseph Stalin was the Soviet promoter (see the Great Purge, 1936–1938). Our hope is that we might collectively choose to skip this development as we approach the “We” Zenith of 2023. If enough of us are aware of this trend toward judgmental self-righteousness, perhaps we can resist demonizing those who disagree with us and avoid the societal polarization that results from it. A truly great society is one in which being unpopular can be safe.It has arrived right on schedule. Back in 1692, the Puritans had come to America to flee religious oppression in England and were now building a “shining city on the hill.” The Puritans were already locked into fear paralysis by forces beyond their control. Native Americans fought hard to keep their territory, murdered Puritans, kidnapped their children, killed their livestock. An epidemic of smallpox hit the community hard and it was a brutal winter in 1692. It is not all that surprising given those conditions and frankly, given ours, that they would collectively snap.Into a utopia comes a major threat that triggers hysteria. In Salem, it was adolescent girls thrashing around on the floor - the reason? They were possessed by witches. The girls accused any random person. Once accused, they were brought before the Oyer and Terminer and usually found guilty because there were no lawyers, there was no evidence and the only education on offer was the Bible. Once convicted they could confess as a witch and live, or deny being a witch and be hanged in the town square with people they've known all their lives cheering on their deaths. 20 people had been hanged before the bubble of hysteria burst. When the Governor's wife was accused that was a bridge too far and the whole thing came crashing down like a house of cards. Sooner or later, all episodes of mass hysteria do evaporate and history takes care of the rest. This depends on the society as a whole getting a grip. When you see half the country as your enemy, that is very nearly impossible. We might be closing in on that moment but we are not there yet. Have you No Decency, Sir? The 1950s had all the markings of a manufactured utopia. Coming out of one of the most horrific eras in the history of mankind, World War II, American life in the 1950s had the facade of the same kind of “normalcy” as the American Left is living through today, only back then it was Conservative. It was the epitome of Americana - though it always must be noted that this was not true for many of the underserved. President Eisenhower, among the many great things he did, would end segregation in public schools and in the military. Back in the 1950s, like now, there was a happy alliance between the administrative state and Hollywood, or American culture. Many on the left were secretly Communist sympathizers, like many screenwriters and actors. They would be found out and Blacklisted after being brought before the HUAC and asked to “name names.” That was their version of a confession and it is seen as just as much of a dishonest move now. But it was the Republicans who were the main opponents as they tried to preserve what they believed was the American way of life. You can imagine how clearly defined that was in the 1950s.They believed their very way of life was threatened by Communism - freedom of speech, freedom of thought, freedom of religion, the right to rise in the free market system, to own property. And indeed, Stalin and other Communist dictators beat, tortured and starved millions of their own people to force compliance. There was no dissent allowed. Most lefties in America were blissfully unaware of just bad it was in Stalin's Russia. The propaganda machine made sure only the positive news got out, just like in modern day China now. The fear was that there were Communists everywhere injecting messages, spying on Americans, pretending to BE Americans. When actual Communists were uncovered, like the Rosenbergs, that kicked the hysteria into overdrive, making McCarthy a hero to the American public. He was so well liked that Eisenhower chose not to speak out against him when he was running for President in 1952. When McCarthy started targeting members of the military, it was too much for even a stalwart Republican like Ike. He set about a negative PR campaign against McCarthy and was largely responsible for not just his downfall but the end of the mass hysteria episode against Communists, though the Cold War would rage on until the 1980s.Racists, Transphobes, Misogynists everywhere. Two things of significance happened in 2008. Barack Obama became the first Black President and the government bailed out big banks to the tune of $700 billion. That year, two major revolutionary forces were born: Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party. In 2014, another revolutionary force would become a gathering storm, Black Lives Matter. Occupy and the Tea Party began when social media was in its infancy. Obama was the first president to use Twitter to build his coalition online. It was seen as a smart way to campaign. Trump would do the same thing in the leadup to his run, around the same time - 2012. It was seen as the end of Humanity itself such that eventually Trump would be banned from the platform. Back in 2008, the Left of this country had already been well on our way towards building our utopian America, our own version of the Shining City on the Hill. We were the beautiful people, the celebrities, the Silicon Valley whiz kids, the filmmakers. We were on the right side of the environment, women's rights, LGBTQ rights. We were progressive, idealistic, fitness gurus, empowered women, who had spent the previous decade going to therapy and starting an anti-depressant regiment. We watched Oprah every day at 3pm. We vowed to do better, to be better, to offend no one. We were the “everybody gets a certificate” generation. Our “goodness” was in how responsible we were. We recycled. We cared about the oceans. We worried about bullies and school shooters. And yes, we HATED the Right. They were the worst this country had to offer. They were “bad” and we were “good” and the Obamas were the leaders of all of it. But we were also afraid of everything, even then. Our children were analyzed, scrutinized to see if they were sociopaths, psychopaths, bullies or geniuses. We drugged them, praised them, hoped for perfection but also wanted all of them to have an equal shot at success. They became teenagers afflicted with one disorder or another, which they wore like badges of honor, or identification. We did too. All of us on the left. We were both victimized by society's structure and empowered to disrupt it.Generation Z has now come of age knowing that they have to put people in categories by skin color, sex, gender and ideology. They know they have to announce who and what people are right off the bat and they somehow also know that the one thing you can't be is a “white cis gendered male.” They also are smart enough to know that what you think or what you say might get you in trouble so they self-censor.To challenge anything Obama did or said was considered, in itself, racism. This was especially true about the Tea Party and marginally true about Occupy Wall Street. People on the Left believe that Obama's win threatened the White Supremacist empire that is America and his very presence led to a White Supremacist uprising called the Tea Party, which would eventually birth the Freedom Caucus, Sarah Palin and Donald Trump, to say nothing of its ring leader, Steven K. Bannon.Racism would become fascism, which would become “white supremacy” which would become Domestic Terrorism. I never questioned that it was based on racism. I believed this 100%. That is why I, along with many parents around 2013, began to spread the ideas of Critical Theory without even realizing it. We believed our beloved President was not being accepted by the White Majority. We began to see racism everywhere too. We also saw injustice everywhere. So did our children who came of age online, half of them social justice warriors that now patrol social media like the Children Spies in 1984.The idea that we are all secretly racists or transphobes or misogynists or homophobes or rapists or we're just one old Tweet or old photo or slip of the tongue away from being exposed and outed is driving us all collectively insane. It was one thing when “Cancel Culture” was just a meme on Black Twitter. It was something driven by a community that had a collective voice online for the first time in American history. Eventually, though, it became obvious that Twitter was being used as an arena for public shaming and the mobilization of online mobs to destroy people's lives. The fear of being targeted is so strong that most in power do whatever they can to avoid it.Twitter's mob rule now translates to on the ground protests, riots and mobs. How quickly did Kenosha burn before any of the facts about the Jacob Blake case came out? Due process was out the window because almost everyone was caught up in the wave of panic and hysteria. We should take a lesson from how fast that traveled from social media to the near destruction of one town. It does not bode well for the future. Somehow no one seems to have put all of these things together - the uprisings from 2008, social media, the Summer of protest in 2020 and January 6th. “Cancel Culture” isn't dangerous because of Twitter. It's dangerous because corporations and now our government enact their own justice because of it. If the currency in an oligarchy is maintaining the image of “goodness” they will happily throw anyone under the bus to preserve theirs. We don't even need a dictatorship to police citizens in a Capitalist country. We just need the systems of Capitalism to adopt the ideology. And so they have. Vivek Ramaswamy has written a book called “Woke Inc” about this very thing. The average American citizen doesn't have a chance. There is not a corporation now, not a university, not a movie studio, or a book publishing house or a mainstream news outlet or a science lab that is not fully on board with the doctrine, who won't side with the mob to purge their companies of undesirables, to preserve their power and their image. All of the inane ways the big corporations are going “woke” embarasses them only they don't realize it. They are pleasing a small minority of loud zealots who police them and will report them for their thought crimes but they are alienating the majority who most definitely is not in favor of this fundamentalism. The same is true of schools and now of our government. The divide between the oligarchy and the working class is widening, and now with Joe Biden calling anyone who supports Trump, or resists their imposed doctrine, potentially a “domestic terrorist” or “white supremacist” what kinds of protections do our average citizens have? What lawyer would risk representing them? The more corporations comply with Biden's doctrine, and the fear and hysteria that goes along with it, the more dangerous our country becomes for people with no power and no status. A recent column in the Spectactor by Joel Kotkin warns:The new autocracy rises from a relentless economic concentration which has engendered a new and fabulously wealthy elite. Five years ago, around four hundred billionaires owned as much as half of the world's assets. Today, only one hundred billionaires own that share, and Oxfam reduces that number to a mere twenty-six. In avowedly socialist China, the top one percent of the population holds about one-third of the country's wealth, up from 20 percent two decades ago. Since 1978, China's Gini coefficient, which measures inequality of wealth distribution, has tripled.And:The time could be shorter than we think. The tech oligarchs are creating something similar to what Aldous Huxley called in Brave New World Revisited a “scientific caste system.” There is “no good reason,” Huxley wrote in 1958, that “a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown.” It will condition its subjects from the womb so that they “grow up to love their servitude” and “never dream of revolution.” It will maintain a strict social order and provide enough diversion through drugs, sex and videos to keep their artificially narrowed minds occupied and sated.The fusion of government with large oligopolistic companies, and the technologically-enhanced collection of private information, allow the new autocracies to monitor our lives in ways that Mao, Stalin or Hitler would have envied. A rising tide of money and administrative power defines the rising autocracy. If we as citizens, whatever our political orientation, are not vigilant, our democracy will become an increasingly hollow vessel”Imagine a future when aritficial intelligence is tasked with policing our thoughts, our speech, our shopping habits, who we date, what we say online, what websites we visit. They can be as indifferent as Stalin's army. They can simply erase or disappear anyone. In its own way, Wall-E is about fighting back against authoritarian power disguised as “taking care” of its citizenry via artificial intelligence. There they lay, pudgy and compliant, zoned out on media, while their food is delivered to them. It is a wonderful metaphor for our potential future. With a government willing to sacrifice our image of strength abroad to satisfy panic and hysteria, and willing to use all tools at their disposal to stifle dissent, this future is not that unimaginable. Here's hoping a smart little robot like Eve shows up to help save us from ourselves. 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While millions of Americans were mourning about the chaos in the streets and political insults thrown back and forth in 2020, author of The Invitation to the Shining City, GM Jarrard, had turned to “binge-watching” the new TV series, The Chosen. “While I was engrossed in the series by Dallas Jenkins, I felt real kinship with the people at the time of Christ who were under Roman rule. It occurred to me that we take our freedoms for granted, and that despite the promise of America being the ‘Shining City on the Hill,' our way of life, even our freedoms are in peril. We need to remember what we learned in elementary school when we memorized the Pledge of Allegiance about being ‘one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.'” “The Chosen was the catalyst that started my writing The Invitation.” “And, unlike our forebears, like the Pilgrims, the Puritans or the Pioneers, there is no New World to flee to. My book, The Invitation to the Shining City, proposes such an ‘exit strategy.' Using the theme of John Winthrop's speech to his fellow Puritans while en route to New England on the ship Arabella, I cite his vision to establish a place where [we] ‘follow the counsel of Micah, to do justly, to love mercy, to walk humbly with our God. For this end, we must be knit together, in this work, as one man.'” The book poses the question, “If there were a place, as the Puritan founder of Boston first described it, where the people were of one heart, one mind, live in righteousness and lift one another's burdens, what would you be willing to pay to go there?” Chapter One begins in Israel two years after its establishment in 1948 on the beach in Caesarea, right below Herod's aqueduct. Jonathan Blum, a military attaché with the U.S. Embassy and a veteran of the Nuremberg and Tokyo trials, accepts a strange meeting with a mysterious man named John who has approached him about an intriguing job offer. He is given his invitation. In a surprising turn of events, Jonathan accepts the position, one where he will eventually become the mentor to a young couple, Joey and Dana Kunz. When they finally give in to a request from the husband's 90-year-old grandmother to take her to a place “to rehabilitate in the hot springs at a Grand Hotel and Spa,” their world is turned upside down. They discover that “grandma” does more than rehabilitate, and so does everyone around her. When the couple inquires about the “entrance fee,” they learn that to live there, you have to be invited. To quality for an invitation, they commit to gather others to join them. But, along the way, they encounter opposition in the form of media attacks, charges of embezzlement and even a kidnapping. The real challenge comes from within–to qualify, Joey has to make the same decision that the young prince in the New Testament couldn't make: to sell all that he had and give it to the poor and follow the Savior. The Kunz's story of opportunity and opposition gives renewed hope to readers in a time of chaos where there is no ‘new world' to flee to. In the words of the Prophet Elisha to his apprentice as the young man's eyes were opened and he could see legions of angels round about, “they that be with us are more tha they that be with them.” (2 Kings 6:16) Yes, the book is fiction. But, it reminds people of faith what God has been telling people for generations. As Paul said, “Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.” The 364-page paperback edition is available upon request from bookstores or at Amazon and at www.bn.com. Its suggested retail price is $16.95. The online version is $7.99. Resellers may obtain wholesale copies at Ingram Books. An audio book is in production. For more information, e-mail the author, G.M. Jarrard at gregorio1945@icloud.com
On this episode of Pilsners and Politics Benjamin sits down with James, from We The People Radio. The duo discuss the most recent Red Wave in VA, Elections, Cancelling Conservatives, and how the the term Conspiracy Theorist is weaponized to silence those who are in search of truth. We here in America are in a struggle between Good and Evil. If good men and women by stand idly, evil will prevail and we will lose The Shining City on the Hill. Millions of Americans are being Red Pilled, and eyes are being opened. No two Americans are the same and the revelations come at different rates. James explains why it's ok that people are awakened at different rates, and how its beneficial to the movement. Don't miss this episode! There are shocking revelations. Check out our Etsy Store: https://www.etsy.com/shop/pilsnersandpolitics?ref=simple-shop-header-name&listing_id=1101879632Find We The People Radio on Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/wprusa_/
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We caught up with actors Michelle Fox and Curtis-Lee Ashqar from the Shining City company. Conor McPherson's Dublin ghost story SHINING CITY is playing at Stratford East until Sat 23 Oct. Tickets and info: https://www.stratfordeast.com/shiningcity
Hear how the greatest sermon of the millennium inspired one of America's greatest presidents on this special episode of Faith and Liberty Rediscovered with Alan Crippen.Ronald Reagan, for nearly two decades, had spoken about a "shining city on a hill", an allusion to the gospel of Matthew chapter 5 and verse 14. Historians would later recognize this biblical image to signify the president's political vision in moral and economic terms. In his parting words to the nation, Reagan revisited this image and explained its meaning. "In my mind [that shining city] built on rocks stronger than oceans, wind-swept, God-blessed, and teeming with people of all kinds living in harmony and peace, a city with free ports that hummed with commerce and creativity, and if there had to be city walls, the walls had doors and the doors were open to anyone with the will and the heart to get here," Reagan said. "That's how I saw it and see it still.” The conviction, clarity, and eloquence with which Reagan spoke is remarkable. There's a reason this speech is famous and still rings true today. But, what inspired Reagan's words? What gripped his heart with such conviction? The great President was inspired by a great sermon. In fact, it was called the greatest sermon of the millennium by Harvard University's Peter Gomes. The sermon was entitled, “A Model of Christian Charity” and was written and delivered by a Puritan named John Winthrop. John Winthrop was a statesman who sought to bring all British institutions under the kingship of Christ. As a Suffolk County squire and magistrate, he tried to reform the British justice system and the Church of England, but King Charles I and his regime thwarted those efforts. The King dissolved Parliament (a bastion of Puritan influence) in 1628, and arrested and imprisoned nine of its leading Puritan members. That's when Winthrop and others decided to set sail for the English colonies in America, where they hoped to create a culture of Christian faith and discipline.Among Winthrop's most influential actions for the future of America was his investment in a faith-based venture capital company, the Governor & Company of the Massachusetts Bay in New England, where he quickly rose to prominence as its CEO. The company would help make a new England in the wilds of America. It was to be a model society for a watching world. Winthrop said that this could not be “a better or more honorable work” to undertake.Winthrop applied manpower to his vision by assembling in Southampton's port a fleet of ships—the Arbella, Talbot, Ambrose, and Jewel—that transported more than 1,000 colonists to Salem, Mass. It was in this pivotal moment that Winthrop gave his "Christian Charity" sermon, in which he offered no certainty of success. In fact, borrowing from nautical imagery that certainly could not have been lost on his hearers, who were about to hazard their lives at sea, Winthrop posits the possibility of a political shipwreck. Then he says, “Now the only way to avoid this shipwreck and to provide for our posterity is to follow the counsel of Micah: to do justly, to love mercy, to walk humbly with our God.” Winthrop closed his sermon: “We are entered into a covenant with Him for this work…. For we must consider that we shall be like a City upon a Hill; the eyes of all people are upon us.” One of the most important features of this story is Winthrop's integrative vision for faith-inspired economics and politics – that the Massachusetts Bay Colony was as much a Biblical economic vision as it was a political vision. In other words, Winthrop understood the virtue of love was the basis for economic and political prosperity. Reagan understood this as well. The late president remains a conservative icon because, like Winthrop, he was a “fusionist” who melded religiously motivated social ideals and values with economic principles. For a nation revisiting its own first principles, perhaps a closer look at Winthrop is in order. His story offers an example for the integration of economic and social concerns under a compelling biblical vision of love for society. When faith guides liberty toward justice the shining city is in Reagan's words, “built on rocks stronger than oceans, wind-swept, God-blessed, and teeming with people of all kinds living in harmony and peace. That was the vision of Winthrop and Reagan…and I hope by God's grace, ours as well. Faith guides Liberty toward Justice.Faith and Liberty Rediscovered features conversations that investigate the people behind historically significant events in American history while also exploring the direct connection between faith and liberty in America from its founding to today. All from the Faith and Liberty Discovery Center which is located in the heart of our nation's birthplace: On Independence Mall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Together, We'll bring history to life in a fun and accessible way by leveraging relevant segments, guests, and exploring topics that allow us to discover our Nation's history in a fresh and new format. Be sure to subscribe in the podcast platform of your choice.
Joseph (he/him) is joined by Melissa Ndiaye (she/her), D. Huey (she/her), and Jada Hunter (she/her) as they talk about how Ronald Reagan was not a good dude. TW: Topics discussed include racism, homophobia, and ableism.
The United States used to be that “Shining City on the Hill,” as President Ronald Reagan described it. The world looked up to us and many sought to model their governments after ours. No more. We've lost our claim to being the showcase for democracy. Blame it on the thuggishness of President Donald Trump, blame it on a do-nothing Congress, blame it on the whining and finger-pointing of the two political parties. All are at fault and we are at fault for putting up with it and condoning it. Other nationalities were appalled at the assault on the U.S. Capitol...Article Link
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During the entire Trump Administration, corporate Democrats have been laying claim that the “world is laughing at us.” Well, the real question is, “Haven't they always been laughing at us?” We start off with incredulous comments by Joaquin Castro at the Impeachment Trial and go from there. Our rankings in the world, relative to the industrialized nations, have had us at joke levels for a long time. Time to own it and move on. Also, I mentioned China. Here's some light reading on the “humanitarian crisis.” These guys have done a great job documenting this issue: https://thegrayzone.com/2019/12/21/china-detaining-millions-uyghurs-problems-claims-us-ngo-researcher/ Support the show through https://thebittertruth.info/merch
Bruce Sidlinger returns to the show with his, let's call it a manifesto, "Everything's Broken". What's been lost in America and where we're heading. A must listen! Here's a transcript of his opening comments! Jeff, we broke everything We broke our worth ethic by rewarding identity instead of merit We broke the systematic equality of opportunity that we had finally achieved and now we're replacing it with a perpetual war between identities We broke the dollar with insane deficit spending, we just haven't realized it yet …and we're about to break the virtuous traditions of savings and self-reliance with runaway inflation, impoverishing our conservative elders We broke any chance of good government going forward by embracing censorship We broke the public school system by forgetting that schools are for the students and not for the teachers We broke our universities by financing their descent into nonsense, and now we're going to break peoples' expectations of fairness with student loan forgiveness We broke the nuclear family and that meant we broke our children's childhoods … and we broke our children's adulthoods too with an unrealistic starting wage that means they'll never get that important starter job We broke our cities by abandoning law & order We broke housing with unconstitutional takings from landlords and that will get worse with runaway property taxation. Developers will flee We broke our world-leading corporate culture because so many employees will never go back to the office We broke industry by outsourcing to China anything that seemed hard And we're breaking the very concept of America as a country with this opening of our borders. Instead of a nation we'll just be an area of soil with people and stuff on it. Taking in all the oppressed and impoverished peoples of the world may be a kind-hearted notion, but it's completely unattainable and all these promises are only promises of future heartbreak. Just like how we're giving up our energy independence to countries that pollute vastly more, the principle known as the tragedy of the commons tells us that doing these things unilaterally is pointless self-immolation None of these new ideas scales or sustains, which i guess is about what you would expect if you put uneducated, inexperienced, self-indulgent cynics with no knowledge of the development of civilization in charge of all the decisions I just hope the vaccines of Operation Warp Speed, where our tiny Shining City on the Hill yet again saved the planet, doesn't turn out to have been our last great gift to humanity But I don't want you to be sad, Jeff, so here's a joke: Two peanuts were in a bad neighborhood. One was a salted. Bruce Sidlinger
America is really great, exceptional, we like to say A shining city on top of the hill, the fantastic American way That's the story we like to tell, the amazing USA! "America is so great for us" said the invaders to the native people "We took your land, but don't worry, your disease is probably lethal." America is awfully great, unless you're wiped out by a plague "America is great for all!" said the founding fathers to the voters well, you know, the white ones, the men, and just the wealthy landowners America is pretty great, if you've got a big estate "America is great for business!" said the white man to the slave "Africans work for free, that's what the bible say!" America is truly great, unless you're the one they trade "America is great for war!" said the politicians to our boys as they sent them off to Vietnam to blow up all their toys America is effin great, until you got to evacuate "America is great for guns!" shooters in the Land of the Free Shootin guns is so much fun, except for the shootee America is crazy great, unless your the one they hate "America is great for monopolies!" said Jeff Bezos to his employees He needs another billion dollars, so your wages he will squeeze America is terribly great, when mom & pop you strangulate "America is great for school!" said the big banks to the students your loan is only half a million, now your life is ruined America is totally great, hope you got a good interest rate America is really great, exceptional, we like to say A shining city on top of the hill, the fantastic American way That's the story we like to tell, the amazing USA!
"But we're Americans. We don't lose wars." False! Ambassador and former National Security Advisor Tony Lake takes a hard look at American leadership in the world from Kennedy until the present time, when like so many countries, our democracy needs shoring up as well. For more about Tony Lake, see this article in the Foreign Service Journal.
Friday was the 48th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, and the beginning of a holocaust in America. How should Christians think about this issue, and how can we combat it? On today's Text-Driven Tuesday Jay and George will look at Acts 17 and how Paul fought against the paganism he saw in Athens, and what this teaches us today.Conformed to Christ aims to engage the mind, affect the heart, and call people to follow Christ. Additionally, our aim is to introduce and explain passages of Scripture and difficult theological doctrines in a down-to-earth and easy-to-grasp manner. Theology and the Bible should impact your life and our goal is that we might play a small part in seeing that happen.***Be sure to subscribe on iTunes, Google Podcasts, Spotify, or Podbean***iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/conformed-to-christ/id1503247486Google Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkLnBvZGJlYW4uY29tL2NvbmZvcm1lZHRvY2hyaXN0L2ZlZWQueG1sSpotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5YruCZu4hla6Ll3rBu7UPYPodbean: https://conformedtochrist.podbean.com/
Sermon by Jay Jones - January 24, 2021 Christ's Fellowship Church of Lawton is a Reformed Baptist Church in friendly cooperation with the Southern Baptist Convention. https://cfclawton.org
Transcript: Hello, this is Pastor Don Willeman of Christ Redeemer Church. Welcome to The Kingdom Perspective. Ronald Reagan (1911-2004), the 40th president of the United States, was an optimist. His news conferences and even political debates were seasoned with jokes and levity refreshing in the world of Washington. Even his political opponents were compelled to appreciate his positive public engagement. This optimism meant he was not afraid to go toe-to-toe with the repressive totalitarian Soviet empire, famously demanding in Berlin, “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!” (Berlin Wall Speech, July 1987) What gave Reagan this optimism? Well, I think a big part of this is that he had imbibed the spirit of Western civilization, which itself had been marinated in centuries of Christian ethos. Christianity is an optimistic, forwarding looking, freedom loving religion. Now, to be clear, this is not to say there are not reasons to be negative about the history of Western civilization and the Christians that populated its landscape. Slavery, rapacious colonialism, genocide—to name a few—are all fair critiques. Nonetheless, any reasonable reading of history has to note that these negatives are not unique to the West. What's unique is the progressive spirit that has fought against them—in many instances all but eradicating these evils. These negatives are not caused by the West's Christian heritage. Rather, a good argument can be made that it is precisely the influence of Christianity that allowed the West so effectively to battle against these evils (to investigate this claim, see, e.g. Confronting Christianity: 12 Hard Questions for the World's Largest Religion by Rebecca McLaughlin, Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World by Tom Holland, Timothy Keller's chapter in “The Church is Responsible for So Much Injustice” in The Reason for God, Why You Think the Way You Do: The Story of Western Worldviews from Rome to Home by Glenn Sunshine, and Poverty and Leadership in the Later Roman Empire by Peter Brown). Reagan encapsulated this optimistic/progressive sentiment with his numerous references to a “shining city on a hill”. Of course, this phrase was not unique to Reagan. He got it from John Winthrop (1587/8-1649), a founding leader of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Governor Winthrop, however, did not coin this phrase either. The phrase actually originates with Jesus, who said that His people will be a “City on a Hill”, lighting the way for a new world, a new way of living (Matthew 5:13-16). Something to think about from The Kingdom Perspective. “Do all things without grumbling or disputing, that you may be blameless and innocent, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and twisted generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world, holding fast to the word of life, so that in the day of Christ I may be proud that I did not run in vain or labor in vain. Even if I am to be poured out as a drink offering upon the sacrificial offering of your faith, I am glad and rejoice with you all. Likewise you also should be glad and rejoice with me.” ~ Philippians 2:14-18 (ESV) Thank you for listening to and supporting The Kingdom Perspective! The Kingdom Perspective is a ministry of Christ Redeemer Church of Hanover, NH. To hear more episodes you can subscribe on Apple Podcasts. To donate or to find out more about the ministry and resources offered by Christ Redeemer Church visit www.christredeemerchurch.org.
January 12, 2021 by Pastor Don Willeman Download Transcript: Hello, this is Pastor Don Willeman of Christ Redeemer Church. Welcome to The Kingdom Perspective. Ronald Reagan (1911-2004), the 40th president of the United States, was an optimist. His news conferences and even political debates were seasoned with jokes and levity refreshing in the world of […]
In this episode I provide commentary on Shining City by Conor McPherson. A play that tells the story of an ex-priest turned therapist who is struggling with his identity and sexuality, as well as helping a man who is seeing the ghost of his ex-wife. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/breaking-the-4th-wall-pod/message
The party treks through the forest and eventually emerges within site of a massive walled city. By using the locate other keys ability of the Shimmerscale, Spell Binder, and Fire Shield, our adventurers determine that there are keys somewhere in there, so they make haste to see what type of civilization the Southern Island has to offer. What will they find in this magnificent city? Will there be friendly faces, delicious food, and restful accomodations? Or is the city's inviting facade just that...a facade? Find out on this week's episode of The Last Refuge. TLR LINKS: Twitter/Instagram: @dndlastrefuge Email: dndlastrefuge@gmail.com Website: www.dndlastrefuge.com Patreon: www.patreon.com/dndlastrefuge Merch: bit.ly/tlrmerchstore DMs Guild/DriveThru RPG (use this link when you purchase and TLR gets 5% of whatever you spend!): https://www.dmsguild.com/?affiliate_id=705437 Idle Champions Gold Chest Code: YUTZ-SUNK-SICK (Game info available at CodeNameEntertainment.com) MUSIC/SOUNDSCAPES: Druid's Grove - Maiden of the Wild - Score by Marc Cholette Druid's Grove - Rite of the Rains - Score by Lewis Clarke Human Metropolis - Provincial Capital City Main Street in Day - Eva Correa Guedes From: BattleBards.com Under License: BattleBards Podcasters Audio License Funkorama by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3788-funkorama License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
RIP The United States of America, 1776-2020. "The Shining City on A Hill"
Remember when Dorothy first saw the Emerald City in “The Wizard of Oz?” That's what the church should look like. When we love each other forgivingly, unconditionally, sacrificially, and without limit, we just shine - and people notice. Sermon 20 of 21 on how God sees us together as his church.
What is happening to the soul of America? It’s a question the whole world is asking as Americans start voting in the most bizarre general election in their history. Yet regardless of who wins the 2020 Presidential race, it’s clear that something is going horribly wrong in the world’s oldest democracy. Tempting as it may be to blame America’s malaise exclusively on Donald Trump, to do so would be naive. Trumpism is a symptom of a disease that’s ravaged America’s body politic for generations. In this episode we meet the American author and political commentator, Jared Yates Sexton to discuss his new book "American Rule: How A Nation Conquered The World But Failed Its People". We explore the myth of American exceptionalism, and how white identity, evangelical Christianity, and conspiracy theories like QAnon are weaponised in American politics. SHOW NOTES If you’d like to do some further exploring of the themes that we cover in this episode, below are some links you may find helpful. The two books by Jared Yates Sexton that are mentioned in this episode are “The People Are Going To Rise Like Waters Upon Your Shore: A Story of American Rage”, which chronicles Jared’s experience of covering Donald Trump’s Presidential campaign in 2016. His most recent book, “American Rule: How a Nation Conquered the World But Failed It’s People” explores the myth of American exceptionalism, white identity, and evangelical Christianity as a powerful political tool. Reply All is a podcast about the internet, but in many ways it’s a show about making sense of modern life, and how to survive it! They’ve recently done two episodes dedicated to Q Anon: episode #165 (The Mold and the Beautiful) and episode #166 (Country of Liars) which explores who’s behind QAnon. Rabbit Hole is an 8-part podcast series produced by the NYT tech columnist, Kevin Roose. The show explores how the internet is affecting us and what can happen when we move our lives online. It doesn’t look exclusively at Q Anon per se but the wider digital environment, and how You Tube in particular has been directing people to extremist content for years. If you’d like to understand more about the Satanic panic of the 1980s, Gimlet Media has produced a brilliant podcast series called Conviction: American Panic. Conviction tells the story John Quinney who grew up in the 1980s and at the age of 10 falsely accused his own father of being the leader of an underground satanic cult that was sacrificing babies and sexually abusing children. What John’s family didn’t realise at the time was that right across America there were hundreds of families being swept up in this religious panic, and by the time it subsided scores of people were in jail on little to no evidence. It’s one of the most bizarre chapters in American judicial history, but it’s also very relevant to today’s satanic hysteria and the cult of QAnon. NPR’s regular podcast ‘Throughline’ explores stories from history that have a modern day resonance, and two recent episodes are particularly relevant to this episode; Conspiracy, which delves into how and why conspiracy theories are fundamental to American life, and how they’re so easily manipulated by political opportunists; and The Evangelical Vote which looks at what it means to be an evangelical Christian in America today and how evangelicals have become a powerful electoral bloc in US politics. Throughline has also just started a new series called “(mis)Representative Democracy” which unpacks some of the myths and popular assumptions about American democracy. The first episode tells the not-so-democratic history of how and why America’s Electoral College was created - the body that elects the President of the USA and which you’re likely to hear a lot more about over the coming weeks and months. The long history of white supremacism and systemic racism in American comes up several times in this episode, although we didn’t have time to explore it in depth. Scene On Radio, produced by the Centre for Documentary Studies at Duke University, is a Peabody-nominated podcast hosted by veteran broadcaster John Biewen. He recently produced and co-presented a 14-part series called ‘Seeing White’ which explores what’s happening in mainstream white identity in America (not the KKK and neo-Nazis) and how the idea of whiteness has evolved over the centuries. The series also has a study guide and fully referenced bibliography for further reading and listening. More recently, Scene On Radio produced a 12-part series earlier this year called “The Land That Never Has Been Yet”. It tells the less well known story of democracy in America going right back to the beginning of the republic. It looks at authoritarianism, voter suppression, gerrymandering, foreign intervention and the role of money in America’s elections. ***FOLLOW THE SHOW*** You can subscribe to Standing Places on iTunes, Google Podcasts and Spotify and please rate, review and share the show so that more people can hear about it. You can also like and follow the Facebook page.
As America continues to grapple with a deadly coronavirus pandemic, Scott and Liam discuss all the latest political drama gripping Washington. Scott also discusses the declining image of America as a redemptive power inspiring people around the world with writer, activist and storyteller Tori Egherman. They chat about identity, race and Tori's experiences living in Iran.
The night is growing darker, the hour is just about to strike thirteen, and its After Midnight, from Midnight in Kentucky! In this ongoing series, we’ll be taking a look at societal, political, and humanities issues with a focus on the connections to the very real villainous plots being enacted in America, the world at large, and right here at home in the Bluegrass. In the first episode of After Midnight we lay our respective beliefs on the line, discuss the vast reach of the authoritarian police state in America, the long standing oppression and brutality against people of color by the state, and just what role a nefarious group of Christian occultists known as the Cult of the Shining City is playing in the political and cultural structure of the U.S. How does this shadowy organization bridge the gap between the CIA, the current climate of our time, NWO conspiracy theories, the supernatural, and possibly even the dark occult rituals found in the docuseries Hellier? Tune in to After Midnight for an unnerving look at what may be the true face of the New World Order! The first episode of After Midnight will be available on the Midnight in Kentucky feed, with subsequent episodes available for MIK Patreons! Details coming soon! This episode features the new single from TruckStop Dave, ‘Small Town Story (2020),’ featuring B. Silas, from the forthcoming ‘Angry Small Town’ album. To hear this song and more, visit the Ransom Letter Publishing Youtube channel! Shownotes: -Stephen’s statement on recent events in our society.http://midnightinkentucky.com/2020/06/stephens-statement-on-recent-events-in-our-society/-Breonna Taylor Was Shot and Killed by Police in Her Own Homehttps://www.thecut.com/2020/06/breonna-taylor-louisville-shooting-police-what-we-know.html-Did Israeli secret service teach Floyd police to kneel on neck?https://www.channel4.com/news/factcheck/factcheck-did-israeli-secret-service-teach-floyd-police-to-kneel-on-neck-Jared Yates Sexton on the Cult of the Shining Cityhttps://twitter.com/JYSexton/status/1267831319112761346-Stuff They Don’t Want You To Know: The Rise of the Agent Provocateur https://open.spotify.com/episode/4ixUevLQG8pGVkyt0zKmLc?si=7pxNlZHKQriHG6ZjlPUUEg-Trump/Epstein court documents https://cdn.factcheck.org/UploadedFiles/Johnson_TrumpEpstein_Lawsuit.pdf-Wind of Changehttps://open.spotify.com/show/3vikAuFxKVNe2GBZC61IYD?si=APmQVs8oSgK6_9s4fEV97w-The Muckrake Political Podcast https://open.spotify.com/show/3Hb6VQBJOiAvNpiolxLTqM?si=_sHtqJ-CSEiPdMKheLYJWw-Ransom Letter Publishing Youtube Channelhttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbSPcYF4tS4LqjMj_l0Qf2g
In January of 1989 after 8 years in office, President Ronald Reagan delivered his 34th and final Oval Office address.His tenure was not without controversy - and there is much about Reagan and his policies for historians and commentators to rightly criticize.But more than anything else Ronald Reagan understood the power and importance of words.For his final presidential address Reagan wanted to end on a note of what had become his trademark - optimism.All of his political life The Gipper had talked about America as a Shining City on a Hill. But he never really defined what he’d meant.As he prepared to leave office - Reagan finally communicated that vision.Pay attention to his words - in Reagan’s view America was made great by free trade and the contributions of immigrants.“If that City had to have walls, those walls had doors and those doors were open to all who had the heart and the will to get here.”It is a very different message than we hear from those who claim his legacy three decades later. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
This week! Uncle Doug examines the deadly intersection of good penmanship and murder with Mark Hoffman and Uncle Mark shares part 1 of his interview with journalist and author Jared Yates Sexton to explore the nightmarish origins of American theocracy.
So, what now? Will the intentional cruelty, “Dred Scottification,” false narratives, and demonization of “the other,” particularly women, children, and people of color, by presidential advisor Stephen Miller and his White Nationalists become the “future face” of America? Or, will “Our Better Angels” help us reclaim the vision of America as the “Shining City on the Hill,” welcoming immigrants and protecting refugees, in good times and bad, while “leading by example” toward a more just and equal world?
With a holy weekend looming, Jared Yates Sexton and Nick Hauselman discuss how the Cult of the Shining City, a nationalistic, Neo-Confederate, white-identity evangelical cult has taken over American politics and the Republican Party, and the danger they pose during the coronavirus pandemic.
In this episode, Lane continues to discuss respect and why it is so important both in being a leader and in life. While last episode focused on listening to others to understand their viewpoint, Lane explains in this episode that the next step to truly deserve respect from others is to start asking questions to better understand and learn.
GUEST: Bill Lockwood, blogger & host at www.americanlibertywithbilllockwood.com also a preacher and school teacher in Wichita Falls and Iowa Park, TX, and author of the study guide Ezekiel: the Watchman of Israel, discusses homosexuality and Mayor Pete Buttigieg running for president. Bill and Jesse talk about all the liberals including Muslims and radical homosexuals who hate each other, but they join to take down Christianity in America. Blacks support evil, and whites are going down the same road of destruction. SILENT PRAYER http://silentprayer.video AUDIO https://soundcloud.com/rebuildingtheman/silent-prayer JESSE HAS 3 SHOWS: The Jesse Lee Peterson Show (M-F 6-9am PT) http://jlptalk.com The Fallen State (in-person interviews) http://thefallenstate.tv Church (Sunday 11am PT) http://rebuildingtheman.com/church OTHER CHANNELS: BOND https://youtube.com/bondrebuildingtheman TFS https://youtube.com/thefallenstatetv Hake https://youtube.com/thehakereport ARTICLES: https://www.wnd.com/author/jlpeterson/ BOOKS: http://www.bondinfostore.org T-SHIRTS: JLP https://teespring.com/stores/jesseleepeterson BOND https://teespring.com/stores/rebuildingtheman TFS https://teespring.com/stores/shopthefallenstate PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/jesseleepeterson TWITTER/FB: https://twitter.com/jlptalk https://www.facebook.com/jlptalk https://www.facebook.com/OfficialJesseLeePeterson ALT MEDIA: https://dlive.tv/jesseleepeterson https://www.bitchute.com/jesseleepeterson/ https://www.minds.com/jesseleepeterson https://gab.ai/jesseleepeterson DISCORD (new link) https://discord.gg/6d3ahn3
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Download mmvh96.mp3 Another episode... finally!The Dave Brodbeck Orchestra featuring Beto O'RourkeA stirring installment of D5: Discussion, Drinks, Disaster, Driving, Debauchery
Bill welcomes novelist, screenwriter, and playwright Seth Greenland to the show. Seth is the author of five novels: The Bones, Shining City, The Angry Buddhist, I Regret Everything, and, most recently, The Hazards of Good Fortune. His play, Jungle Rot, won the Kennedy Center/American Express Fund For New American Plays Award and the American Theater Critics Association Award. Television credits include a two-year stint as a writer-producer on the Emmy-nominated HBO series Big Love. Don't miss it!
It's our 50TH EPISODE! And for this exceptional landmark, we could think of no more appropriate topic to discuss than American Exceptionalism. What does that term mean? Where does it come from? Does US exceptionalism differ from other kinds of exceptionalism? And what is the current state of American Exceptionalism now that it has a president, in Donald Trump, who has openly refuted the concept? With the help of an exceptional guest - Hilde Restad (Bjørknes College, @hilderestad, and co-host of Ceasefire podcast) - we answer all of these questions and much more in a wide-ranging discussion. As always, thanks so much for listening and we look forward now to the next 50 episodes of American History Too! Cheers, Mark and Malcolm Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Before Everything is a celebration of friendship and love between a group of women who have known each another since they were girls. They’ve faced everything together, from youthful sprees and scrapes to mid-life turning points. Now, as Anna, the group’s trailblazer and brightest spark, enters hospice, they gather to do what they’ve always done—talk and laugh and help each other make choices and plans, this time in Anna’s rural Massachusetts home. Helen, Anna’s best friend and a celebrated painter, is about to remarry. The others face their own challenges—Caroline with her sister’s mental health crisis; Molly with a teenage daughter’s rebellion; Ming with her law practice—dilemmas with kids and work and love. Before Everything is as funny as it is bittersweet, as the friends revel in the hilarious mistakes they’ve seen each another through, the secrets kept, and adventures shared. But now all sense of time has shifted, and the pattern of their lives together takes on new meaning. The novel offers a brilliant, emotionally charged portrait, deftly conveying the sweep of time over everyday lives, and showing how even in difficult endings, gifts can unfold. Above all it is an ode to friendship, and to how one person shapes the journeys of those around her. Praise for Before Everything “Gorgeous, a heartbreaker, a non-stop dazzler, a major achievement. Thank you, Victoria Redel.”—Michael Cunningham, Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Hours “Before Everything is a riveting, timely story that explores the unsettlingly beautiful and emotionally-charged landscape that is revealed when old friends embrace what they have never before admitted: the limits of mortality and the boundlessness of friendship.”—Ruth Ozeki, bestselling author of A Tale for the Time Being “Victoria Redel bears witness to a remarkable group of women, effortlessly weaving back and forth through time, each thread revealing the cracks and secrets of their complex lives, while also drawing them closer. . . . Redel proves that female friendship is the quiet, steady engine that truly runs the world.”—Hannah Tinti, bestselling author of The Good Thief“Before Everything is, well, everything you want a novel about life, death, and friendship to be—smart, moving, sweeping, poetic, stinging, just beautiful. I loved these women (and their men) and this elegy to their long-reaching bonds.”—Dani Shapiro, author of Slow Motion, Devotion: A Memoir, and Still Writing Victoria Redel is the critically acclaimed author of four previous works of fiction and three collections of poetry. Her debut novel, Loverboy, was named one of the best books of the year by the Los Angeles Times and won the Sister Mariella Gable Prize from Graywolf Press and the Forward Silver Literary Fiction Prize. She has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts and has contributed to The New York Times, theLos Angeles Times, Elle, O, the Oprah Magazine, Granta, One Story, and the Harvard Review. She received her MFA in poetry from Columbia University and teaches at Sarah Lawrence College. Seth Greenland is a novelist, an award-winning playwright, and a screenwriter. He is the author of the novels I Regret Everything, The Angry Buddhist, The Bones, and Shining City, which was named a Best Book by the Washington Post. He was a writer-producer on the Emmy-nominated HBO seriesBig Love and executive produced the film, No Pay, Nudity. Until recently he was the co-host of the LARB Radio Hour on KPFK. Born in New York City, Greenland currently lives with his wife in Los Angeles. www.SethGreenland.com Event date: Tuesday, July 11, 2017 - 7:30pm
Nick Cain- Being ever creative, Nick Cain finds his role within the arts and society an engaging and multi-faceted one. Heralding from country Victoria, his strong performance background has found him co-leading an iconic Melbourne theatre restaurant cast and sweeping up theatrical awards for his work in other jaunts on stage, including 'player with most potential' in Totally Wasted at Ballarat One-Act Play Festival. His diary has been booked over the last few years with regular guest spots on Channel Eleven's Neighbours as 'Alistair Hall', ABC's Utopia - Series 2 as 'Terry', Seven's Home and Away as 'Officer Thompson' and Triple Zero Heroes as the troubled youngster, 'Chris'. His latest theatre production featured 5-star reviews for his work at 'Laurence' in Q44 Theatre Companies production of Shining City. While his latest foray into feature-length film as the co-lead 'Dom Hardy' in the harrowing drama After The End is due for cinematic release early 2018. Nick has built a solid reputation as a hard-working and truthful performer, as well as featuring in multiple national adverts for Hungry Jacks, ANZ, and MYOB, and honing his presentation skills for TV Pilot Who Said We Can't?, The Australian Defense Force, IBM, Disney Australia and the inaugural Pause Festival. He has lent his voice to hosting a radio show for KISSFM Australia and hosting a popular podcast based on Australian storytellers called The Act of Storytelling. Nick is a trusted creative producer to some of the countries most influential product brands with his role as a Freelance Creative Producer. He works with agencies such as Jack Morton Worldwide, Bunch, Precinct and Seamless Events alongside others to proudly deliver inspiration and exceptional film and event experiences to clients such as BP, CBA, Telstra, Commonwealth Games, Sydney University, Schweppes and CUB to name but a few. Having training amongst Australia's illustrious coaches, Nick travelled to Los Angeles in early 2012 to study personally with his acting gurus Ivana Chubbuck and Howard Fine, who are both renowned for their work with the top echelon of Hollywood's talent. Nick continues his ongoing performance training at the highly regarded Q44 Acting Studio in Melbourne and Sydney Actors Collective in Sydney. Nick is extremely passionate about continuing his work across a gamut of social and artistic arenas, and he continues to foster a strong relationship with his boutique acting management, Expression Arts Management, for further success into the future. A little bit more about me can be found on my website at www.nickcain.netListen to another #12minconvo
Before attempting to explain what Conor McPherson’s The Birds is, running now at Sebastopol’s Main Stage West, best make it clear what it isn’t. It is not a stage adaptation of the Alfred Hitchcock film. It’s not set in Bodega Bay, there is no schoolhouse full of screaming children, and no one is trapped in a phone booth by marauding sea gulls. Nor is it a straightforward adaptation of Daphne du Maurier’s original 1952 novella. It’s not set in post WWII England. It’s not about a war veteran working on a farm with his family. It’s not a metaphor for the aerial bombardment endured by England during the Second World War. The only thing the three have in common is the premise of nature turning on man in the form of indiscriminate and deadly attacks of the avian variety. McPherson takes that premise and wraps a human story around it with elements whose genesis may be found in… well, we’ll get to that. It begins with a man and a woman, Nat (Nick Sholley) and Diane (Liz Jahren), taking refuge from the birds in an abandoned New England Farm House. Nat is in the throes of some illness, so Diane nurses Nat back to health. Together they map out a plan for survival. Not knowing if there’s a world to return to, they begin to settle into sort of a domestic arrangement when the balance of that arrangement is set askew by the arrival of Julia (Rae Quintana) and a visit from a “neighbor” (Anthony Abaté). Soon, the birds may become the least of their problems when it comes to their survival. The Birds is a challenging mixture of horror, thriller and character study. It’s an oddly constructed piece with some scenes lasting only seconds and others seeming to jump in time past significant action. The play’s structure works against it as a sense of dread or danger was often dissipated by the requirement of having the cast rearrange the set or move prop pieces. Still, it does manage to have a couple of nice jolts in it. What The Birds has going for it is an excellent cast and MSW’s naturally claustrophobic setting. Nick Sholley (last seen at MSW in A Steady Rain) brings another seriously flawed, slightly unhinged character to vivid life. Liz Jahren is very good in the role of Diane, effectively playing a character who starts out as bedrock of sense and purpose but who eventually crumbles under the pressure, both real and imagined. Rae Quintana’s Julia is a character of many shades and quite possibly shady. Anthony Abaté has the least amount of stage time, but that time is memorable. Director Elizabeth Craven doubles as Set Designer and, as I have come to expect from Main Stage West, she packs a lot of set into its relatively small space. While the interior of the house takes up the complete stage, a sense of depth and the outside world is achieved through lighting and especially by Doug Faxon’s sound design. Nary a feather is seen on stage, but the birds – aurally - are omnipresent. McPherson’s plays (Shining City, The Seafarer) often have a supernatural or spiritual component to them. One might assume that the use of du Maurier’s original concept of the destruction of the human race by birds would fit that bill but, as I alluded to in the opening paragraph, I think it actually goes a bit deeper. At its core, what McPherson presents in his adaptation is the story of a man and woman, possibly the only humans on earth. Their (relatively) idyllic existence is challenged by temptation in the form of Julia. The seeds of mistrust are sown by the appearance of a Mephistophelian neighbor. That mistrust leads to actions that result in their leaving (or self-banishment from) the comfort and safety of their surroundings. Could it be that Conor McPherson’s The Birds is a very twisted retelling of the Book of Genesis and Adam and Eve? The Birds runs through April 23rd. Visit mainstagewest.com.
After a successful blockade of President Obama’s Supreme Court nominee, the GOP-led Senate will convene hearings this week on President Trump’s pick for the Court’s year-old vacancy. Considering all that has happened in the past year, how should Democrats handle the proceedings? On this week’s episode, we put that question to U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee. We also sit down with veteran journalist Tom Rosenstiel to discuss his debut novel Shining City, a timely thriller about the inner-workings of a controversial Supreme Court nomination. Tom describes how his decades of political reporting informed the book, and reflects on some of the parallels between reality and fiction. Amicus is brought to you by The Great Courses Plus, a video learning service that offers lectures on all kinds of topics. Get the first full month FREE when you sign up by going to TheGreatCoursesPlus.com/amicus. And by Blue Apron. Create delicious, home-cooked meals with fresh ingredients delivered right to your door. Get your first three meals free when you go to BlueApron.com/Amicus. Please let us know what you think of Amicus. Our email is amicus@slate.com. Follow us on Facebook here. Podcast production by Tony Field. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
After a successful blockade of President Obama’s Supreme Court nominee, the GOP-led Senate will convene hearings this week on President Trump’s pick for the Court’s year-old vacancy. Considering all that has happened in the past year, how should Democrats handle the proceedings? On this week’s episode, we put that question to U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee. We also sit down with veteran journalist Tom Rosenstiel to discuss his debut novel Shining City, a timely thriller about the inner-workings of a controversial Supreme Court nomination. Tom describes how his decades of political reporting informed the book, and reflects on some of the parallels between reality and fiction. Amicus is brought to you by The Great Courses Plus, a video learning service that offers lectures on all kinds of topics. Get the first full month FREE when you sign up by going to TheGreatCoursesPlus.com/amicus. And by Blue Apron. Create delicious, home-cooked meals with fresh ingredients delivered right to your door. Get your first three meals free when you go to BlueApron.com/Amicus. Please let us know what you think of Amicus. Our email is amicus@slate.com. Follow us on Facebook here. Podcast production by Tony Field. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
You might call it historical, perhaps you might even reference it as monumental - the 2016 general election was one for the record books - no doubt. The polls, the pundits, the media were all caught snoozing. Perhaps it was in between their snoring-bouts when Americans captured their country back. This was an American Revolution like we've never seen before! I have many observations throughout this election cycle - with the biggest being that I think we were at the tipping point! Millions of Americans felt the same way and responded with their vote. With political ratings in the basement, there is a yearning to once again capture that 'Shining City on a Hill'. As Ronald Reagan said "I've spoken of the Shining City all my political life. …In my mind it was a tall, proud city built on rocks stronger than oceans, windswept, God-blessed, and teeming with people of all kinds living in harmony and peace; a city with free ports that hummed with commerce and creativity. And if there had to be city walls, the walls had doors and the doors were open to anyone with the will and the heart to get here. That's how I saw it, and see it still." Colonel Jim Waurishuk, 30 year career senior intelligence officer, retired U. S. Air Force Colonel, held positions on the White House national security staff, headquarters US Central Command - served in Grenada, Panama, Bosnia, Iraq & Afghanistan. Also an advisory capacity for the Donald Trump Campaign for President.
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Gwen Orel talks to Lisa Dwan about her role in Conor McPherson's "Shining City" at Irish Repertory Theatre Featured tune is "The Constellation Slide Set" from Mick McAuley's new CD "Highs & Bellows."
Bob Wilcox and Gerry Kowarsky review (1) GEORAMA, by West Hyler, Matt Schatz & Jack Herrick, at the Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, (2) THE WEIR, by Conor McPherson, at Cocktails & Curtain Calls, (3) UNDERNEATH THE LINTEL, by Glen Berger, at the New Jewish Theatre, (4) SHINING CITY, by Conor McPherson, at Upstream Theater, (5) GOOD PEOPLE, by David Lindsay-Abaire,at the Alpha Players of Florissant, (6) GIOCOSO, at Circus Harmony, and (7) COSI FAN TUTTE, by W. A. Mozart and Lorenzo Da Ponte, at Winter Opera St. Louis.
The thing about death is, it’s not negotiable. Sooner or later, we all have to face it. Till then, it’s hanging out there, somewhere, waiting for us. And one way we deal with that is by experiencing books, movies, songs, poetry and plays about the inevitability of death. Somehow, when glimpsing the grim reaper through the arts, we feel a little better because, I don’t know, maybe watching other people deal with the specter of mortality makes it all seem more normal. Or something. If that’s your take, then a pair of just-opened plays make be just your cup of tea, since the inevitability of death hangs over both of them like an ax dangling above a doorway in a condemned cabin in the middle of an earthquake. First, there’s Conor McPherson’s evocative drama "Shining City," now playing at Main Stage West, in Sebastopol. In this sly, slippery, deceptively unassuming play, the author of "The Weir" and "The Seafarer" has crafted a ghost story, of sorts, in which a troubled Dublin therapist named Ian, played with marvelous intensity and fragile humanity by Nick Sholley, gains a new client: an anxious insomniac named John, played brilliantly by John Craven. Poor old John. A steady-minded businessman, he is shaken by the fact that he keeps seeing the ghost of his recently deceased wife. And she doesn’t seem happy. Unable to sleep, afraid to enter his own house, John believes he’s being haunted for certain unspoken sins. Ian, convinced his new client is simply struggling with feelings of grief and unresolved guilt, gently coaxes the old man toward facing his fears, all the while carrying his own soul-crushing battle with shame and despair. With carefully crafted delicacy, the playwright takes us through Ian’s increasingly powerful therapy sessions with John, scenes that play out against a pair of shattering close encounters Ian has with the fierce-but-frail Neassa (Ilana Niernberger) the mother of Ian’s child, and with Laurence (John Browning) a sensitive street hustler who brings Ian an unexpected understanding of how the world works. Elegantly staged by director Beth Craven, beautifully acted by the entire ensemble - with special kudos to Craven for the astonishing twenty-minute monologue that comes mid-way through the show - this rich, emotionally powerfully story is more than just a chilling ghost story. In the end, "Shining City" - glowing with intelligence, humor and humanity - reveals itself as a lyrical, lush look at the conversations we have, and the choices we all make, to feel alive in a world haunted by the ghosts of our past decisions. Next up, "Bonnie and Clyde: the musical." It is widely known that the notorious Depression-era outlaws Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrows died violently in a hail of gunfire. In a car. In Texas. In composer Frank Wildhorn’s musical reworking of the bank robbers’ lives, the legendary tale begins at the end, the sound of gunfire, the flash of light, and famous fugitives’ bloody bodies dead in their car. Ivan Menchell’s clever script then jumps back in time to Bonnie and Clyde’s childhoods, gradually working the story’s way back to where it began. It’s an effective choice. As the title characters, Taylor Bartolucci and James Bock have some killer chemistry, thick enough to spread on a baguette, and they are matched in poise and presence by Scottie Woodard and Heather Buck as Clyde’s brother Buck and sister-in-law Blanche. Barry Martin, as a local preacher, brings some impressive southern gospel charm. The somewhat uneven musical score does have a few strong moments, mostly when emphasizing the tragic love story at the heart of the play. On Jesse Dreikosen’s first-rate set of jagged wooden slats, director Craig Miller keeps the tension building and building and building, right to end. And that’s no small feat, considering the fact that, hey, everyone knows the ending. "Bonnie & Clyde" runs Thursday–Sunday through March 15 at 6th Street Playhouse. 6thstreetplayhouse.com. "Shining City" runs Thursday–Sunday through March 15 at Main Stage West. Maistagewest.com.
The Angry Buddhist (Europa Editions) Los Angeles-based author Seth Greenland (Shining City) appears at Skylight to read and sign his new book, The Angry Buddhist, a satire of local politics with parallels to the national scene. A great election year read! "The Angry Buddhist is a great novel. It's satirical, it's political, it's sexual. All things I love dearly. Finally, something to come home to." —Larry David Praise for Shining City: "Shining City is sassy, knowing, and irreverent. It's too much of all those things to be pigeonholed as 'summer reading,' but if you have room for one entertainment this summer, let it be Shining City." —Washington Post "Shining City is very funny... readers will be seduced by the combination of narrative skill and sharp-pointed wit." —Los Angeles Times Seth Greenland is the author of the novels The Bones and Shining City and was a writer-producer on the Emmy-nominated HBO series Big Love. His play, Jungle Rot, was the winner of the Kennedy Center/American Express Fund for New American Plays Award, the American Theater Critics Association Award, and anthologized in Best American Plays. His work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, The Huffington Post, and the journal Black Clock. He Lives in Los Angeles with his wife and two children. THIS EVENT WAS RECORDED LIVE AT SKYLIGHT BOOKS MAY 3, 2012.
Do Creative People Have to be Self-Destructive? New York Times writer Samuel G. Freedman asks, “Can the forces that make you creative also kill you?” “Can you live with control and yet create free of restraint?” “Can you live enough of the dark side to tell the tale without becoming a casualty?” Freedman's curiosity is well founded. History is littered with the corpses of creative geniuses who were self-destructive. Vincent Van Gogh cut off his own ear and mailed it to his girlfriend. Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko would likely have made out the mailing label and taped up the box. Rothko is the lightweight of this trio. His most valuable painting is worth only about 80 million dollars, while Van Gogh and Pollock have paintings worth 150 million each. Nobel laureates Hemingway and Faulkner are the opening names on a Who's Who list of alcoholic authors. James Joyce, Dorothy Parker, Jack Kerouac, Truman Capote, Hunter S. Thompson and dozens of others trot faithfully behind. Hendrix, Joplin, Cobain and Winehouse are the high-stepping drum majors in a holiday parade of musicians who flirted with death until it finally seduced them. Each of these artists deserved better than what they gave themselves. In her research paper, Creativity, the Arts, and Madness, Dr. Maureen Neihart says, “The belief that madness is linked with creative thinking has been held since ancient times. It is a widely popular notion.” In his book, Creativity and Madness: New Findings and Old Stereotypes, Dr. Albert Rothenberg says, “Deviant behavior, whether in the form of eccentricity or worse, is not only associated with persons of genius or high-level creativity, but it is frequently expected of them.” But we still haven't answered Freedman's questions. Let me do that for you now: Q: “Can the forces that make you creative also kill you?” A: There are no “forces that make you creative.” Practice and determination are what make a person good at basketball, ice skating or cliff diving. The same is true of creativity. Q: “Can you live with control and yet create free of restraint?” A: Yes. Q: “Can you live enough of the dark side to tell the tale without becoming a casualty?” A: Can a man fight in a horrible war and return home safely to the people he loves? Examine the life of a creative genius who got lost in the dark and you'll find that he or she had no partner watching out for them. When Pennie says, “Honey, help me carry the trash to the curb,” it's not because she needs help with the trash. I'm always annoyed that she broke my concentration in the same way a pot smoker is annoyed when you harsh their mellow. But I help her carry the trash to the curb. As we fall ever deeper into creative thought, we float weightlessly in a silent world underwater where time stands still and everything is beautiful. But it is dangerous to go swimming alone. Be sure someone who loves you ties a rope to your leg so they can haul you up when you've been under too long. Self-talk is the other key to keeping your balance. Do you want to drown in the darkness alone? All you have to do is say to yourself, “No one understands me… I'll never be appreciated… Some people have all the luck but nothing ever works out for me… It just wasn't meant to be.” Each of us believes what we hear ourselves say. The maternal side of my DNA includes a strong predisposition to depression and suicide. I am familiar with that darkness. The most effective antidote I've found is to tell Pennie 2 or 3 times a day about some small thing that makes me happy. Many of the things I choose to celebrate are admittedly stupid but the technique works anyway. “This bowl of beans and rice is really hitting the spot...
Memoirists and novelists James Brown (This River), Seth Greenland (Shining City), Diana Wagman (Skin Deep), and Leslie Schwartz (Angels Crest) will discuss the art and craft of fiction versus narrative nonfiction, in a panel discussion moderated by Meghan Daum (Life Would Be Perfect If I Lived in That House). This is sure to be a fascinating discussion among terrific local writers, and should not be missed! James Brown is the author of several novels, including Lucky Town, and the memoirs, The Los Angeles Diaries, and This River. He received a Nelson Algren Award in Short Fiction and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. His work has appeared in numerous publications, including GQ, The New York Times Magazine, and The Los Angeles Times Magazine. Brown teaches in the MFA Program at Cal State San Bernardino. Seth Greenland is the author of the novels The Bones, Shining City, and The Angry Buddhist (Spring 2012). He was one of the original bloggers on the Huffington Post. www.sethgreenland.com Leslie Schwartz is the author of two novels, Jumping the Green, which won the James Jones Award for best first novel, and Angel's Crest which was an L.A. Times Bestseller, a Book Sense 76 pick and was translated into 13 languages. She is the founder of a literary magazine: Charlotte: A Journal of Poetry, Prose and Art. Her second novel, Angel's Crest has been adapted for the screen and debuted at the Tribeca Film Festival in April. She is currently at work on her third book, a collection of personal essays. Diana Wagman is the author of three novels. Her second, Spontaneous, won the PEN West Award for Fiction. Her short stories have been published in Black Clock, Electric Literature and elsewhere. She has a personal essay in this summer's Colorado Review and often writes opinion pieces for the Los Angeles Times. Meghan Daum is a columnist for The Los Angeles Times and the author, most recently, of the memoir Life Would Be Perfect If I Lived In That House. She has contributed to numerous magazines and to public radio programs such as Marketplace and Morning Edition. She is also the author of the novel The Quality of Life Report and the essay collection My Misspent Youth. THIS EVENT WAS RECORDED LIVE AT SKYLIGHT BOOKS JULY 6, 2011.
Jesse speaks with the founders of the Lebowski Fest, Will Russell and Scott Shuffitt. Then, author Seth Greenland talks about his book Shining City. Finally, callers call in to talk about marmots! What's a marmot, you ask? Listen to find out! Or google it.
This time around: The SDCC without SD? DK2, all for you? Thunderbolts are go! The scion of Asgard meets the sons of the plains! The young Dark Knight meets an ancient ritual! And we ask that musical question: Was the Satellite of Love better before the crate of Hamdingers? Plus: can anyone make Matthew give a rat’s hindquarters about Bullseye and Venom? I wouldn’t bet the rent, but you might make a sandwich and settle in, it’s our thirty-third gala escapade. NEWS Reactions to Comic Con International: San Diego Linkage Should the convention move? Linkage Contest Major Spoilers is giving away the Frank Miller inspired Limited Edition Dark Knight 2 Statue. You can win it and all it takes is a picture. Linkage REVIEWS Rodrigo: Thor #10 J. Michael Straczynski and Olivier Coipel’s unstoppable new vision of Thor barrels on stronger than ever! As the Asgardians returned to this life and Thor returned to Midgard, so came the ills that have plagued the gods and man for millennia. Now for the first time since their rebirth, Thor and his fellow hero-gods are venturing forth from the Shining City to confront the growing evils that amass on their horizon…and within their walls… 4 out of 5 Stars Stephen: The Dreamland Chronicles #1 The Dreamland Chronicles is a webcomic created by Scott Christian Sava, about a boy who returns to a realm of dreams after eight years and discovers that his childhood friends there have grown up. 4 out of 5 Stars Matthew: Thunderbolts #122 SECRET INVASION strikes Thunderbolts Mountain as Captain Marvel attacks! But when you're dealing with the Thunderbolts, it's never quite clear who's the villain and who's the hero...Also, another unexpected visitor shows up, threatening to tear the T-Bolts apart from within! Can Norman Osborn hold his team of damaged psyches and tortured souls together, or is this the end of the Thunderbolts as we know them? Part 1 of 4. 4 out of 5 Stars Poll of the Week: How do you like your Mystery Science Theater 3000? A) Joel Robinson B) Mike Nelson VOTE TRADE PAPERBACK REVIEW Batman: The Long Halloween Taking place during Batman's early days of crime fighting, this collection tells the story of a mysterious killer who murders his prey only on holidays. Working with District Attorney Harvey Dent and Lieutenant James Gordon, Batman races against the calendar as he tries to discover who Holiday is before he claims his next victim each month. A mystery that has the reader continually guessing the identity of the killer, this story also ties into the events that transform Harvey Dent into Batman's deadly enemy, Two-Face. Contact us at podcast@majorspoilers.com Music from this episode comes from Ookla the Mok. You can visit them on the web at www.ooklathemok.com and purchase their music at the iTunes Music Store. A big Thank You goes out to everyone who downloads, subscribes, listens, and supports this show. We really appreciate you taking the time to listen to our ramblings each week. Tell your friends about the podcast, get them to subscribe and, be sure to visit the Major Spoilers site and forums.
This time around: The SDCC without SD? DK2, all for you? Thunderbolts are go! The scion of Asgard meets the sons of the plains! The young Dark Knight meets an ancient ritual! And we ask that musical question: Was the Satellite of Love better before the crate of Hamdingers? Plus: can anyone make Matthew give a rat’s hindquarters about Bullseye and Venom? I wouldn’t bet the rent, but you might make a sandwich and settle in, it’s our thirty-third gala escapade. NEWS Reactions to Comic Con International: San Diego Linkage Should the convention move? Linkage Contest Major Spoilers is giving away the Frank Miller inspired Limited Edition Dark Knight 2 Statue. You can win it and all it takes is a picture. Linkage REVIEWS Rodrigo: Thor #10 J. Michael Straczynski and Olivier Coipel’s unstoppable new vision of Thor barrels on stronger than ever! As the Asgardians returned to this life and Thor returned to Midgard, so came the ills that have plagued the gods and man for millennia. Now for the first time since their rebirth, Thor and his fellow hero-gods are venturing forth from the Shining City to confront the growing evils that amass on their horizon…and within their walls… 4 out of 5 Stars Stephen: The Dreamland Chronicles #1 The Dreamland Chronicles is a webcomic created by Scott Christian Sava, about a boy who returns to a realm of dreams after eight years and discovers that his childhood friends there have grown up. 4 out of 5 Stars Matthew: Thunderbolts #122 SECRET INVASION strikes Thunderbolts Mountain as Captain Marvel attacks! But when you're dealing with the Thunderbolts, it's never quite clear who's the villain and who's the hero...Also, another unexpected visitor shows up, threatening to tear the T-Bolts apart from within! Can Norman Osborn hold his team of damaged psyches and tortured souls together, or is this the end of the Thunderbolts as we know them? Part 1 of 4. 4 out of 5 Stars Poll of the Week: How do you like your Mystery Science Theater 3000? A) Joel Robinson B) Mike Nelson VOTE TRADE PAPERBACK REVIEW Batman: The Long Halloween Taking place during Batman's early days of crime fighting, this collection tells the story of a mysterious killer who murders his prey only on holidays. Working with District Attorney Harvey Dent and Lieutenant James Gordon, Batman races against the calendar as he tries to discover who Holiday is before he claims his next victim each month. A mystery that has the reader continually guessing the identity of the killer, this story also ties into the events that transform Harvey Dent into Batman's deadly enemy, Two-Face. Contact us at podcast@majorspoilers.com Music from this episode comes from Ookla the Mok. You can visit them on the web at www.ooklathemok.com and purchase their music at the iTunes Music Store. A big Thank You goes out to everyone who downloads, subscribes, listens, and supports this show. We really appreciate you taking the time to listen to our ramblings each week. Tell your friends about the podcast, get them to subscribe and, be sure to visit the Major Spoilers site and forums.
Martha Plimpton talks about her acting journey from "The Goonies" to "Hedda Gable", exploring her experience growing up in the theatre, with childhood performances at The Public; the importance of her joining Chicago's noted Steppenwolf ensemble, and the unique challenge of capturing her character with a single scene in the current Broadway production of Conor McPherson's "Shining City". Original air date - June 30, 2006.
Martha Plimpton talks about her acting journey from "The Goonies" to "Hedda Gable", exploring her experience growing up in the theatre, with childhood performances at The Public; the importance of her joining Chicago's noted Steppenwolf ensemble, and the unique challenge of capturing her character with a single scene in the current Broadway production of Conor McPherson's "Shining City". Original air date - June 30, 2006.
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