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Throughout America's history, we've never shied away from exporting our ideas. And most of the time that's beneficial for nations on the receiving end. But when our ideals become corrupted, the exporting business seems to kick into a higher gear. Case in point: the Biden administration's LGBT activism around the globe -- all fueled by official public policy and your tax dollars. Family Research Council's new report, Exporting LGBT Ideology: The Biden Administration's Foreign Policy Priorities, documents this state-sponsored activism in detail. Host Joseph Backholm talks with the report's authors, FRC's Arielle Del Turco and Chris Gacek, about what our government is doing abroad and the worldview that it's peddling around the globe. Resources: ⁠Exporting LGBT Ideology: The Biden Administration's Foreign Policy Priorities [Family Research Council] Biden State Dept. Engaging in ‘Ideological Colonialism' with Worldwide LGBT Agenda [TWS] Read ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠The Washington Stand⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, featuring news and commentary from a biblical worldview. Published by ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Family Research Council⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

“The reason that oncology nursing developed at the moment it did was from you and the other few people who were real leaders in your field. . . . It happened in that particular moment because of you and [the other founding members of ONS],” George Hill, MD, MA, DLitt, Captain, Medical Corps, U.S. Navy Reserve (retired), told Cindi Cantril, MPH, RN, OCN®, CBCN, founding board member and first vice president of ONS. Hill was a monumental supporter of ONS's founding and incorporation in 1975, and the duo reflected on their experiences and the history of oncology nursing. You can earn free NCPD contact hours after listening to this episode and completing the evaluation linked below. Music Credit: “Fireflies and Stardust” by Kevin MacLeod Licensed under Creative Commons by Attribution 3.0 Earn 0.5 contact hours of nursing continuing professional development (NCPD) by listening to the full recording and completing an evaluation at myoutcomes.ons.org by May 5, 2025. The planners and faculty for this episode have no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose. ONS is accredited as a provider of NCPD by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation. Learning outcome: The learner will report an increase in knowledge related to the early formation of ONS. Episode Notes Complete this evaluation for free NCPD. Learn more about the history of ONS. ONS Voice articles: NOBC Partnerships Advance Nurses' Placements on Local and National Boards Boards and Committees Need Oncology APRN Voices. Will You Step Up to the Challenge? Clinical Journal of Oncology Nursing article: Supporting One Another for 40 Years The Early Days: Four Smiles and a Post Office Box Oncology Nursing Foundation Association of Community Cancer Centers American Association for Cancer Education European Association for Cancer Education National Cancer Act of 1971 To discuss the information in this episode with other oncology nurses, visit the ONS Communities. To provide feedback or otherwise reach ONS about the podcast, email pubONSVoice@ons.org. Highlights From Today's Episode “There's no doubt that the National Cancer Act elevated the whole field of oncology into something that was very different. . . . The reason that oncology nursing developed at the moment it did was from you and the other few people who were real leaders in your field. . . . It happened in that particular moment because of you and [the other founding members of ONS].” Timestamp (TS) 02:48 “In the 1950s and 60s, cancer was a word that was never mentioned. The idea of having something called cancer was so mysterious, so dangerous, so frightful, you could not mention cancer. Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City was a pioneer in introducing the word cancer to be able to be used. But most everywhere else, even in oncology, we had to dodge around the term.” TS 09:43 “Throughout America, people need medical care and cancer care close to home. People can often drive many hours just to reach a community cancer center. To reach a comprehensive cancer center such as Memorial Sloan Kettering or MD Anderson would be impossible. So, the idea of developing physicians and radiation therapists and nursing oncologists who can do the job close to home is terribly important, otherwise they just don't get treated.” TS 12:44 “The opportunity and the goal of working with people of like mind in other countries is well worth doing. And we also learn from them.” TS 28:33

Ramona Houston: The Tragedy of Tyre Nichols — Although “The Empowerment Zone” celebrates Black History all year, Ramona has decided to devote all episodes in February to recognizing Black History Month. Considering the recent tragedies in the US with the police beating and murder of Tyre Nichols in Memphis, Ramona begins this month exploring racialized police violence in the United States. In this episode Ramona reads her recent blog post “Wicked Policing: A Reality in All Black Communities throughout America.”

This month, Lexi from HDE Home Care interviews guest Amy Ferrell. Amy is a success story who discusses what she does for work and how obtaining a paid job has changed her life.Amy was laid off due to Covid, and was unsure if she'd be able to find a job now that she is in her 50's, or that she'd only be able to find volunteer work. However, with the help of HDE and her Job Developer Ryan McFallo, she was able to find a paid job that she enjoys.Throughout America, many seniors and boomers are seeking assistance around the home.  Millions of developmentally disabled people also need a little extra help with daily life activities.  Baby Boomers Radio is bringing these stories to our network to help people know there are service opportunities for anyone who needs the help.HDE Home Care provides job training and in-home caregiving services for the Portland Oregon metro area.  HDE has joined the Baby Boomers Radio network to share their story with our listeners.To learn more about HDE Home Care, please visit hdehomecare.com or call (503) 686-9079.  If you hear about a service offered through HDE Home Care, but don't live in or around the Portland Metro area, then reach out to us here at Baby Boomers Radio and we'll try to help get you connected with a local resource.  Email hello@babyboomersradio.com.

This month Lexi discusses Vitaliy's success story of over two years working at Walmart. It was unclear whether he'd be successful, but he has ended up being one of our greatest success stories of all. Eli Plouff joins again this month as a guest to discuss his experience job coaching Vitaliy, and how his experience coaching him has translated into other areas of his work.Throughout America, many seniors and boomers are seeking assistance around the home.  Millions of developmentally disabled people also need a little extra help with daily life activities.  Baby Boomers Radio is bringing these stories to our network to help people know there are service opportunities for anyone who needs the help.HDE Home Care provides job training and in-home caregiving services for the Portland Oregon metro area.  HDE has joined the Baby Boomers Radio network to share their story with our listeners.To learn more about HDE Home Care, please visit hdehomecare.com or call (503) 686-9079.  If you hear about a service offered through HDE Home Care, but don't live in or around the Portland Metro area, then reach out to us here at Baby Boomers Radio and we'll try to help get you connected with a local resource.  Email hello@babyboomersradio.com.

Throughout America, many seniors and boomers are seeking assistance around the home.  Millions of developmentally disabled people also need a little extra help with daily life activities.  Baby Boomers Radio is bringing these stories to our network to help people know there are service opportunities for anyone who needs the help.HDE Home Care provides job training and in-home caregiving services for the Portland Oregon metro area.  HDE has joined the Baby Boomers Radio network to share their story with our listeners.To learn more about HDE Home Care, please visit hdehomecare.com or call (503) 686-9079.  If you hear about a service offered through HDE Home Care, but don't live in or around the Portland Metro area, then reach out to us here at Baby Boomers Radio and we'll try to help get you connected with a local resource.  Email hello@babyboomersradio.com.

Throughout America's history, its people formed churches, social and fraternal organizations, and neighborhood groups at an astonishing pace. When we talk about “American exceptionalism” this is what we're really talking about: the self-organizing community that solves its own problems. In second half of the 20th century, however, scholars and pundits have pointed to a decline in American neighborliness and propensity for joining civic organizations. Church attendance is down, social organizations are dissolving, and two-parent families are declining. What can the data on American attitudes toward community tell us about why this is happening? Today, I am pleased to welcome Ryan Streeter and Dan Cox to discuss the state of American communities. Streeter is a Senior Fellow and Director of Domestic Policy Studies at AEI. He studies topics of civil society, community, localism and religion. Dan Cox is the Senior Fellow in Polling and Public Opinion at AEI and the Director of the Survey Center of American Life. He specializes understanding American attitudes toward politics, youth culture, identity, and religion. We discuss highlights from AEI's fall American Community survey, which can be found on the AEI website. We'll also discuss their vocational journeys and professional lives and the role of civic engagement in building a happy and fulfilling life.  Mentioned During the Episode https://www.aei.org/profile/ryan-streeter/ (Ryan Streeter) https://www.aei.org/profile/daniel-a-cox/ (Dan Cox) https://www.americansurveycenter.org/research/public-places-and-commercial-spaces-how-neighborhood-amenities-foster-trust-and-connection-in-american-communities/ (American Community Survey) https://www.hks.harvard.edu/faculty/stephen-goldsmith (Stephen Goldsmith) https://www.britannica.com/biography/Adam-Smith (Adam Smith) https://www.britannica.com/biography/David-Hume (David Hume) https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/social-sciences/social-network-analysis (Social network analysis) https://www.pewresearch.org/ (Pew Research Center) https://www.prri.org/ (Public Religion Research Institute) https://www.aei.org/profile/karlyn-bowman/ (Karlyn Bowman) https://www.aei.org/research-products/book/the-moral-sense/ (The Moral Sense- James Q. Wilson) https://www.britannica.com/biography/Irving-Kristol (Irving Kristol) https://www.aei.org/press/press-release-in-memory-of-michael-novak-1933-2017/ (Michael Novak) https://www.aei.org/research-products/book/to-empower-people/ (To Empower People) https://www.jstor.org/stable/2111666?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents (Thermostatic Opinion) https://www.aei.org/politics-and-public-opinion/if-libraries-are-about-finding-the-truth-lets-be-honest-about-their-decline/ (Sam Abrams on public libraries)

This episode is part 52 of the series "DAYBREAK! Messages from the Frontline of an American Christ Awakening". 

Israel is the Holy Land, but America is still the land of infinite blessings.  In my first trip back in two years, I drove over 2000 miles visiting several states, and being the recipient of endless blessings where I arrived to be a blessing. It's more than a travelog, it's taking God's promise that we are to be a blessing to the families of the world on the road.  What an incredible experience!  And now, I'm planning my next trip. Tune in, share your feedback, and invite me to visit you.   www.Genesis123.co  FB - www.facebook.com/Genesis123Foundation  Twitter - @Genesis123F IG - Genesis_123_Foundation Sign up for great Christian content from our podcast host at Charisma  https://play.charismaplusapp.com/subscribe?code=JonathanFeldstein Shop in the Charisma store for outstanding Christian books and other resources https://shop.charismamag.com/?ref=Genesis123

In this disturbing podcast, Dr. Veltmeyer exposes how the federal government has incentivized the medical profession -- especially hospitals -- to endanger the lives and well-being of COVID-19 patients. Throughout America, COVID patients are being forced into ICUs, placed on dangerous ventilators, and denied inexpensive therapeutics like HCQ, ivermectin, zinc and Vitamin D. Hospitals are being financially rewarded if patients are diagnosed or die of COVID or placed on ventilators or given remdesivir, which can lead to organ failure. Patients are denied the right to see their families, attorneys, or other advocates or to even leave the hospital of their free will. It is a black mark on the federal government and the reputation of medical providers who are shamelessly participating in this deadly arrangement.Support the show (http://drveltmeyer.com)

Throughout America's history, its people formed churches, social and fraternal organizations, and neighborhood groups at an astonishing pace. When we talk about “American exceptionalism” this is what we're really talking about: the self-organizing community that solves its own problems. In second half of the 20th century, however, scholars and pundits have pointed to a decline in American neighborliness and propensity for joining civic organizations. Church attendance is down, social organizations are dissolving, and two-parent families are declining. What can the data on American attitudes toward community tell us about why this is happening? Today, I am pleased to welcome Ryan Streeter and Dan Cox to discuss the state of American communities. Streeter is a Senior Fellow and Director of Domestic Policy Studies at AEI. He studies topics of civil society, community, localism and religion. Dan Cox is the Senior Fellow in Polling and Public Opinion at AEI and the Director of the Survey Center of American Life. He specializes understanding American attitudes toward politics, youth culture, identity, and religion. We discuss highlights from AEI's fall American Community survey, which can be found on the AEI website. We'll also discuss their vocational journeys and professional lives and the role of civic engagement in building a happy and fulfilling life.  Mentioned During the Episode https://www.aei.org/profile/ryan-streeter/ (Ryan Streeter) https://www.aei.org/profile/daniel-a-cox/ (Dan Cox) https://www.americansurveycenter.org/research/public-places-and-commercial-spaces-how-neighborhood-amenities-foster-trust-and-connection-in-american-communities/ (American Community Survey) https://www.hks.harvard.edu/faculty/stephen-goldsmith (Stephen Goldsmith) https://www.britannica.com/biography/Adam-Smith (Adam Smith) https://www.britannica.com/biography/David-Hume (David Hume) https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/social-sciences/social-network-analysis (Social network analysis) https://www.pewresearch.org/ (Pew Research Center) https://www.prri.org/ (Public Religion Research Institute) https://www.aei.org/profile/karlyn-bowman/ (Karlyn Bowman) https://www.aei.org/research-products/book/the-moral-sense/ (The Moral Sense- James Q. Wilson) https://www.britannica.com/biography/Irving-Kristol (Irving Kristol) https://www.aei.org/press/press-release-in-memory-of-michael-novak-1933-2017/ (Michael Novak) https://www.aei.org/research-products/book/to-empower-people/ (To Empower People) https://www.jstor.org/stable/2111666?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents (Thermostatic Opinion) https://www.aei.org/politics-and-public-opinion/if-libraries-are-about-finding-the-truth-lets-be-honest-about-their-decline/ (Sam Abrams on public libraries)

In this First hour: Vince suggests what Biden will speak about in the President's upcoming Press Conference. What will the Press ask Biden? Approval ratings.  the President. Also discussed: supply chain issues and crime increase in Guest Ken Davis, Former Assistant Attorney General of Virginia discuss Legal fight against Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin on executive order on masks.   For more coverage on the issues that matter to you visit www.WMAL.com, download the WMAL app or tune in live on WMAL-FM 105.9 from 3-6pm. To join the conversation, check us out on social media: @WMAL @VinceCoglianese See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

America's Obsession with Illusion Richard Gale and Gary Null PhD Progressive Radio Network, January 14, 2022 “He who despises his own life is soon master of others” – English proverb For the vast majority of Americans, the past year has been the most challenging in their lives – certainly for young adults. However, not everyone has been suffering equally. The nation's health or illness is not uniform. Much of our suffering is dependent upon the institutionalization and negligence of previous injustices, the loss of social equanimity, economic heedlessness, and our leaders' unmitigated greed and pursuit of power. Nor is everyone adversely affected by the shifts underway in the imaginations of the political and ideological universes. The transnational class of corporate and banking elites, for example, has little motivation to respect or contribute to national boundaries and interests. They perceive themselves as global actors. For the generals and captains of neoliberal globalization, the puppet masters of financial markets, the Covid-19 pandemic only caused annoying disruptions in the quality of their lives. For the remainder, it has been cataclysmic. As we begin 2022 should we not pause and reflect carefully about what we want and don't want as individuals and a nation to secure a sustainable future? A deep and collective introspection into the shared moral principles is called for. It is no longer what we say or profess that has any truth or significance. Rather what we actualize in our daily lives and as a society is going to determine whether the future will be better future or worse. Only our actions can realistically convey the deeper values in the American psyche. Therefore we need to ask ourselves more difficult questions to discover the real moral poverty that defines us as a civilization. Where were the large demonstrations against the trillion-dollar bailout of Wall Street and foreign banks when barely a penny was spent for the average citizen? Where were the demonstrations against home foreclosures and the loss of small family farms?  Debt drenched student aid? Exploitive payday loans and exorbitant credit card fees? There was no outrage against Obama's broken promises on universal healthcare, a platform that helped bring him to the White House. The single-minded attention on the pandemic has cancelled out 2.5 million homeless American children and 46 million adults and children who go hungry daily. Where was a collective voice condemning the hundreds of billion tax dollars to increase the power of the military and intelligence complexes as American cities further collapsed into ghettos? Where were the marches against corporations off-shoring jobs? Why no vocal outrage against the invasions of Libya and Syria, or the US' ongoing support of rogue dictatorships, such as Saudi Arabia and the UAE for crimes against humanity in Yemen? Where are the protests against corporations exploiting slave labor in poor countries such as Bangladesh and Indonesia?  There were no noteworthy protests for any of these issues. And yet these are true existential threats to our very democracy. Bertrand Russell wrote, “one should care about the world they do not see.” Should we not be planning ahead for the future of our children, grandchildren and ourselves instead of being incapacitated by fear? The national popular disinterest in these and other crises foreshadows something on the horizon that does not bode well for most Americans. It is a simple principle to understand; yet so subtle it will likely go unnoticed until everyone is individually and collectively affected. It is the utter lack of balance within the nation's body politick, and across the media that spoon feeds us virtual images of a faux theatrical play, the illusory icons on our minds' monitor screens, that shape our perceptions of reality. This is how control is exerted over our thoughts, speech and actions. In fact, it is only after people exercise their thoughts independently, with the certain belief that they have actual self-control over their lives, that they can arrive at the realization that their perceptions may be largely distorted. Throughout America's history there has been a system of three federal branches to assure there is a platform for checks and balances as well as a structure to contain the tensions between them. That system now is being rapidly challenged and eroded. Now the middle of the road Democrats officially control the White House and both legislative bodies. We will see what awaits us. There is also what is commonly referred to as the “fourth estate,” the powers of the press and news media that control the framing of the political narrative and partisan issues. In the past, the media was expected to hold the government accountable by exposing its conflicts of interest that endanger the public, its misdemeanors, and systemic corruption. This too is in decay as the media has been fully captured by corporate interests and now aligns itself politically and ideologically with the new political elite determined to reshape democracy and launch a new reset that will dramatically infringe on individual rights and liberties. Finally, there is the growing influence of a fourth branch of government, the corpocracy and its private interests. We might also include the US intelligence community that increasingly operates independently from executive and legislative oversight. Together we can witness this loose cabal of seemingly independent entities, working simultaneously in consortium and in opposition to each other, propelling us towards a future tsunami of greater polarization and immense social disruption. Earlier generations were not threatened by the telecommunication and technological giants, such as Google, Facebook and Amazon. Clinton's Communications Decency Act of 1996, despite its well-meaning intentions to protect free speech, was otherwise destructively naïve. At that time it was sensible; however, that was before the advent of the social media that now dominates our lives and shapes political discourse. Silicon Valley has become a force far more powerful than the lobbyists on K Street to ensure that corporate Democrats are raised to a position of absolute power. Yet the problem would be equally threatening if it were the corporate and radicalized GOP in power. The centrist Democratic left, lulled in a passivity that “it can't happen here,” is every bit as dangerous and delusional as the Republican far-right's paranoia over conspiracies squatting behind every nook and cranny. A moderate centrist right no longer exists as it has now exited reality like a herd of lemmings to follow Trump phenomena over a phantasmagoric cliff. The more important question to contemplate is how this will impact yourself and average citizens. What happens elsewhere around the world can no longer be viewed in isolation. Globalization is perhaps the most holistic phenomena within the matrix of financial capital movements and post-modern social restructuring. China has the means to socially control most of its population, especially in urban areas. On the other hand, China would be unable to succeed in this endeavor without the direct assistance, trade and technological development of Silicon Valley and the private innovators of intelligence and surveillance applied science. China has already launched social scoring, a nefarious means to reward and penalize public activity. If a person protests the lack of personal freedom, democratic values and free speech, his or her social score decreases. And through digital networks, authorities can monitor and identify every Chinese citizen's movements. All of this technology is ready for launch in the US and other developed nations. However, rather than social scoring, it is block chain, the digital database that gathers any information it is programmed for. Block chain has already been employed for almost a decade. At this moment the federal government and individual states are blindly over-reacting to Covid's health threats, the climate and environment, and the collapse of social cohesion. These threats are eliciting government mandates, such as vaccination. A Biden federal vaccine mandate would overrule individual state laws. The fact that this is being publicly stated should quell many conspiratorial theories. It is part of a more comprehensive and long-term agenda for expanding government social control under the pretense and propaganda of keeping Americans safe under the banner of national security. New laws are under construction that would redefine hate speech. Censorship of free speech for criticizing official narratives and policies to tackle the pandemic are being enforced. Any criticism towards the failures of the Covid-19 vaccines is redefined as threats to public health. People raising such critiques may eventually find their names on domestic terrorist lists. This scenario is not beyond the imagination. Wikileaks revealed that environmental, animal protection, and human rights groups have been labeled as domestic terrorist organizations. Guilt by association laws, for example buried in Obama's National Defense Authorization Act, are in place. Expanding a law's scope is far easier than erasing it from the books. Consequently, it is not unlikely that these laws may eventually widen to include charges of subversion based solely on the emails you read, the videos you watch or the broadcasts you listen to. This would inevitably lead to the death toll for any residue of integrity in journalism. Silicon Valley's collusion with the government has canceled the voices of some of our best investigative journalists, such as Chris Hedges, Sharyl Attkinsson, Glenn Greenwald, Max Blumenthal and Craig Murray. These are only a few of many examples. The new unstated law is that original investigation must support the official narrative, otherwise it will be prohibited from accessible public view. We may recall that under the second Bush administration, the justice department created “free speech zones,” fenced off or confined areas where demonstrators were only permitted to exercise their Constitutional rights of free protest and expression. Today we are only several small amendments away before the right to assemble being banned altogether. Faced with growing condemnation by many nations, the US' hegemony on the world geopolitical arena has waned considerably. Biden's administration and its return to neocon foreign against Russia and China and neoliberal market policies will likely make every effort to regain the dominance it lost during the past four years. What has vanished in the US' former full spectrum dominance over the geopolitical landscape is now being inverted to strengthen federal hegemonic reign over the American population. Finally, we need to awaken to modern technologies' remarkable sophistication and its certain threats to the health of our societies, and even to our definition of being human. Sadly, this is an industry each of us has been complicit in advancing. Coining a term by one of the planet's most important and forgotten 20th century prophetic voices, the Trappist monk Father Thomas Merton, we are facing a great Unspeakable, a spiritual crisis contributing to the existential vacuity of modern American culture. Few are aware that in his 1964 collection of meditations, Seeds of Destruction, Merton predicted that the civil rights movement would confront a catastrophic impasse and may find itself without leadership. Four years later, Martin Luther King Jr, who Merton had a deep correspondence with, was assassinated. Merton would die suddenly later that same year under very mysterious circumstances in Thailand. Another way to describe the Unspeakable is criminal Sovereignty, with a capital S, to convey its almost numinous qualities. If alive today, Merton would look upon both the extreme right and left as mere expressions of the meaninglessness of American life manifesting as a turbulent ocean of afflictive emotions and thoughts. Instead of technology serving the needs of humanity, Americans are being increasingly conditioned to willingly bow as slaves to technology. The public, Somerset Maugham warned, “are easily disillusioned then they are angry or it was the illusion they loved.” The Unspeakable's unspoken mantra is: technology must progress regardless of how many people fall destitute, jobless, debt ridden and physically ill with only suicide as a recourse to escape. “American democracy today,” Merton observed over 55 years ago, “is just cheap pressed wood fiber, cardboard and spray paint.” Consequently, the elite sitting in the global control tower view the Great Reset's technological regime as preferable to democracy's kabuki theater. Advanced surveillance, artificial intelligence, intelligent robotics, transhumanism, a 5G internet of everything, genetic engineering, and weather modification should be our guiding avatars. The solutions, he would argue, can no longer be found in civil discourse or the rights of human beings gathering in assembly. For the ruling elite, the masses are blind sheep wandering in search of a shepherd. This is what author Ronald Wright called the “progress trap” – progress' unending efforts to feed technology's hunger to devour natural and human capital, interest free. And the mainstream press and news media, in its' malady of cognitive dissonance, serves as its unreflective cheerleader for our march towards civilizational collapse. Merton was keenly aware of technology's dangers to social stability. In a 1967 letter he took aim at the “universal myth that technology infallibly makes everything in every way better for everybody. It does not.” However, Merton was by no means a Luddite. “Technology could indeed make a better world for millions of human beings,” he wrote. Yet there remained the nightmare of technology transforming the world into a “more collectivist, cybernated mass culture.” Decades before the first desktop, Merton foresaw a complete fragmentation of the nation's moral and spiritual fabric when people will begin basing all of their political and ethical decisions on computers. Prophetically he wrote to a friend, “just wait until they start philosophizing with computers!” That was 1967. He even foresaw technology becoming a means to elevate the slaves of technology's false self, to satisfy narcissistic appetites for admiration and status. In other words, the woke social media. “The greatest need of our time,” Merton wrote in his Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander, “is to clean out the enormous mass of mental and emotional rubbish that clutters our minds and makes all political and social life a mass illness. Without this housecleaning we cannot begin to see. Unless we see we cannot think. The purification must begin with the mass media.” For this reason we urgently need to penetrate the illusions of propaganda and popular falsehoods, across the entire political spectrum as well the self-appointed pontificating Pharisees who are ushering a new socio-economic era where endless technological innovation has precedence over human lives. Despite its newness, it has also been clearly predictable. No doubt, if Orwell were penning his great novel today, the emergence of this new American era we are witnessing would not be fiction.

How do we ‘re-imagine trust' such that we effectively engage the hearts and minds in communities throughout America?  What is our responsibility as professionals within Public Health?  What are the things the we need to talk about when we talk about 21st century community engagement?    Our efforts to Re-Imagining Trust: Engaging Hearts and Minds in Communities Throughout America must create more practical and effective solutions, drawing on the listening of diverse groups.  Our efforts should improve citizens' knowledge and skills through immersive experiences. Our task is to begin the conversation that generates these outcomes. We must continue to explore new ways to empower and integrate people from different backgrounds, as we seek to understand the interpersonal barriers which contribute to complacency.  We must also remember and speak into the critical role of ethics in policy, medicine and community care.  We must increase the likelihood that initiatives and solutions address the true challenges; challenges which often remain hidden in blindspots. Profound Conversations Executive Producers are the Muslim Life Planning Institute, a national community building organization whose mission is to establish pathways to lifelong learning and healthy communities at the local, national and global level.   MLPN.lifeThe Profound Conversations podcast is produced by Erika Christie www.ErikaChristie.com

Tuesday was a heartbreaker for Democrats. Republican Glen Youngkin is the new governor of Virginia, and Republican Jack Ciattarelli came very close to unseating Democratic Governor Phil Murphy in New Jersey. Those are states that just a year ago, Joe Biden won by ten and 17 points respectively. Throughout America, Tuesday's elections big and small seemed to point to a rejection of the president and at least some of his policies, and to troubles ahead for Democrats in next year's mid-terms. Democrats, of course, can make a course correction, although what direction they should go in is a matter of debate within the party. Meanwhile, Republicans will still have to deal with the wild card that is Donald Trump and again, there's disagreement over how much Tuesday tells us about running with, for, or against the former president. Tom Bevan, co-founder and president of RealClearPolitics, Carl Cannon, Washington Bureau Chief, and Phil Wegmann, White House Correspondent join Andrew Walworth on today's RealClearPolitics Takeaway podcast.

This episode is also available as a blog post: https://youarewithinthenorms.com/2020/12/26/how-dea-policies-affect-the-delivery-of-covid-19-vaccines-in-predominately-black-neighborhoods-throughout-america/ One pharmacist, who has chosen to remain anonymous stated, she had been in business near that same area for several years and her pharmacy only carried Tylenol #3 (medication combines with 30 mugs of codeine). However, when the State of Illinois Board of Regulation Inspector came to her establishment he questioned the pharmacy owner as to why she didn't carry Oxycontin? She explained to him the physicians, in the area don't write for that type of control narcotic. The inspector immediately demanded she begin ordering Oxycontin, which she then claimed sat on her shelf for months until the next time the same inspector returned; only to site her for having “excessive Oxycontin” in her store. The constant inspections and violations got so out of control they were able to undermine her Illinois Public Aid contract and she was forced to close down. Many Black Pharmacists will agree these occurrences are unlikely to happen to a non-white pharmacist. Practicing Pharmacy while black is real, and the results are the destruction of overall healthcare in our predominately black neighborhoods. We have been frequently reporting on the DEA using these and other types of systemic racist targeting and we have been demanding Congressional Oversight from the Sub-committee on Judiciary, Congressional Government Operations Committee, Sub-committee on Health and the Environment, the resulting warnings are being reported in our blog youarewithinthenorms.com. We demand Congressional hearings and media, exposing these injustices and how it affects our overall healthcare and the passing down of generational wealth (stratification economics). --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/norman-j-clement/support

For show notes and complete description, visit www.HagmannReport.com/videosThe Hagmann Report is brought to you by EMP Shield - www.EMPshield.com/hagmann Use Promo Code HAGMANN for $50 OFF!In this episode, John Moore joins Doug Hagmann to talk about January 20, 2021, and what to expect between now and then - and beyond.IMPORTANT LINKS:DONATE: (www.HagmannReport.com/donate)HAGMANN COFFEE: (www.HagmannStore.com)The Hagmann Report provides news and information based on a combination of exclusive investigative work, proprietary sources, contacts, qualified guests, open-source material. The Hagmann Report will never be encumbered by political correctness or held hostage to an agenda of revisionist history. Join Doug Hagmann, host of the Hagmann Report, Weekdays @ 7 PM ET.ON THE GO? SUBSCRIBE TO HAGMANN’S PODCASTiTunes: (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/hagmann-report/id631558915?uo=4)Spotify: (https://open.spotify.com/show/376mkckQHCPYTJssQN794g)iHeart: (https://www.iheart.com/podcast/256-hagmann-report-30926499/)Spreaker: (https://www.spreaker.com/show/hagmann-report)FOLLOW HAGMANN AT:Parler: (www.parler.com/profile/DouglasHagmann)Twitter: (www.twitter.com/HagmannPI)Facebook: (www.facebook.com/douglas.hagmann)

Racism in science is real. Racism in academia is real. Racism in rock climbing is, yes, really real. Throughout America’s history, hallmarks of our democracy have been largely reserved for cis white people through intentional exclusion of BIPOC people. Connie and Kai Lightner call attention to the role of race and how racism in the outdoor industry, public and private institutions still disproportionately segregates and oppresses Black people in 2020.   In the midst of a revolution and pandemic, things have felt pretty bleak to a lot of people. Go get some vitamin D and your headphones, and listen to episode 19 with the Lightners who remind us of the importance of elevating diversity in our outdoors and the possibility of radical hope. The quote goes something like: “There is a light at the end of the tunnel, but the way out is through.”

Throughout America’s atomic history, the president has solely held the power to start a nuclear war. For decades, glitches and slipups have threatened to trigger such a war – unintentionally. A faulty 46-cent microchip nearly caused World War III, and we have cyber-attacks as well. Former US secretary of defense William Perry and security expert Tom Collina condemn leaving explosive power this devastating under one person’s decision and outline the prescription for a safer future.

Throughout America’s atomic history, the president has solely held the power to start a nuclear war. For decades, glitches and slipups have threatened to trigger such a war – unintentionally. A faulty 46-cent microchip nearly caused World War III, and we have cyber-attacks as well. Former US secretary of defense William Perry and security expert Tom Collina condemn leaving explosive power this devastating under one person’s decision and outline the prescription for a safer future.

Throughout America's history, soldiers have always returned home from war with stories of strange things they either saw or experienced on the battlefield. This episode explores a number of strange happenings that occurred during a time of war.

Throughout America’s atomic history, the president has solely held the power to start a nuclear war. For decades, glitches and slipups have threatened to trigger such a war – unintentionally. A faulty 46-cent microchip nearly caused World War III, and we have cyber-attacks as well. Former US secretary of defense William Perry and security expert Tom Collina condemn leaving explosive power this devastating under one person’s decision and outline the prescription for a safer future.

In today's episode I talk with Cindy Miller for the Office of Tourism in Maryland about traveling alone and with your girlfriends. Plus Govern Larry Hogan from Maryland declared it the Year of the Woman in 2020. We are celebrating the Centennial of the 19th Amendment.  Traveling offers many benefits including being educated on new places, and new cultures. 80% of travel decisions are made by women. Reach out to family and friends to find travel partners or you can travel solo. Research what type of travel you want to.  Be flexible when you're traveling in a group.  Schedule alone time when traveling in a group. Throughout America you can find information about each state if you go to the destination market i.e. visitmaryland.org. Most tour agencies have "Women Only" Tours. Check out Tour Companies to see if you can join their tour group ala cart. You might not have to sign up for the whole tour but only use parts of the tour.  August 18, 2020 is the 100th Anniversary of the 19th Amendment.  Larry Hogan has declared in Maryland it being the "Year of the Woman."  There are several events happening to celebrate the centennial.  You can contact Cindy Miller through the governments website: VisitMaryland.org Here are Women Tour Agencies. I have not used any of these agencies but simply googled them. You can find more and if you do have a recommendation please let me know by emailng me at michelle@thenewmid.com SmartTours (Women only Tour Agency) Women Tours

Families across The United States live off of less than $1.90 a day.

Throughout America, there are churches with both committed believers, and those who say they are believers but really aren't. Are you ready to examine your lifestyle and discover which one you are? Check out our website @ victorychurchraleigh.com

On Friday July 12, pro-illegal immigration supporters protesting outside a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility pulled down the American flag and replaced it with the Mexican flag [and vandalized a blue lives matter flag]. Throughout America’s history, our flag has flown as a symbol of our foundational guiding principles. The American flag—like the flags of every country in the world—stands for its guiding principles—not its flaws. There exists no flawless nation, state, or city because there exist no flawless humans. But there are countries whose guiding principles are nobler than others—countries in which liberty and justice are more …

On Friday July 12, pro-illegal immigration supporters protesting outside a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility pulled down the American flag and replaced it with the Mexican flag [and vandalized a blue lives matter flag]. Throughout America's history, our flag has flown as a symbol of our foundational guiding principles. The American flag—like the flags of every country in the world—stands for its guiding principles—not its flaws. There exists no flawless nation, state, or city because there exist no flawless humans. But there are countries whose guiding principles are nobler than others—countries in which liberty and justice are more passionately pursued and protected than others. The United States stands at the pinnacle of such nations. If national flags did represent a country's flaws and failures rather than its guiding principles, surely the Mexican flag would stand for egregious institutional corruption and incompetence, making it inexplicable why anyone would replace the American flag with the Mexican flag. Alternatively, if Mexico is superior to America in most ways, why aren't Central American migrants staying in Mexico? Read more...

The freshmen class of Democrats in the house supporting Anti-Israel & Anti-Semitic Sentiments; The far-left is on a warpath of virtue signaling; Do the American people want their country to become a Socialist failure? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A recent case out of Fresno regarding our national motto, “In God We Trust,” is proving that American heritage is trying to be resisted by vehement disputants. Learn what this issue entails at FirstLiberty.org/Briefing. According to The Fresno Bee, the Fresno City Council is considering adding the national motto, “In God We Trust,” to the wall of the council chambers.  But, at least one local resident opposes the proposal.  In the mind of one atheist protestor, the delicate balance between church and state is upset entirely by the public display of these four words.  And, despite the fact that the atheist writes, “Atheists like me feel the idea of “God” has little meaning,” he encourages the local community to oppose a word which he believes has “little meaning.”  One wonders how a word with “little meaning” can violate the so-called separation of church and state, but that’s another issue. Of course, if folks wanted to purchase the article in The Fresno Bee, they would do so with coins bearing the national motto since 1864.  The city council would be in good company with the United States House of Representatives which has the motto emblazoned behind the speaker’s dais. And, on the way to city hall, residents may have to drive by police or sheriff’s cruisers sporting the national motto.  Throughout America’s history, the national motto has been honored and celebrated as an expression of what it means to be an American. Any effort to prevent its display should be rejected as bald efforts to rewrite our history and destroy our heritage. To learn how First Liberty is protecting religious liberty for all Americans, visit FirstLiberty.org.

Peter A. Ravella and Tyler Buckingham sit down for a special show in honor of America's veterans. Throughout America's history, our armed forces have intersected with the shoreline - to defend the homeland from attack, to leave the homeland for war "overseas", and to return again, god willing. On this show Peter and Tyler look at some of the numbers of equipment and people at left America though its ports during the years of World War II. Its incredible. Other subjects discussed include: ASPN's ASBPA Conference speaker, session, and SWAG awards; exciting new content coming to the Network; and, a status update on the fire in the coastal community of Malibu.

In today’s The Tao of SKWealthAcademy Podcast, Episode_20, titled, “The Things the Happiest Societies Would Find Abnormal About Modern Life,” I discuss why we have migrated away from many of the elements of hunter-gatherer societies that used to bring humanity great levels of sustainable happiness and why many of us have chosen a lifestyle with almost no sense of community and a heightened sense of isolation from our neighbors in overcrowded urban settings. Forgive the opening of the podcast that states this is Episode_018, as that is an error. This is Episode_020. This podcast could also be titled, “How a return to hunter gatherer society rules would solve modern society’s overfed, malnourished, lack of exercise, sleep deprived, low self-esteem, high anxiety and depressed, inequitable wealth, loneliness, and unhappiness problems.” I believe that this is one of the most important podcasts I have produced in the past year, and as such, it is also one of the longest, clocking in at well over an hour long, so grab a tall cup of coffee and settle in. Furthermore, for all of my friends that have young children, I made this podcast for you as well, as in modern society, we have migrated away from many of the child-rearing practices of hunter-gatherer societies that provided a sense of security and mental well-being to infants. I believe that the goals of social conditioning and production of an obedient labor force that go hand and hand with compulsory schooling today is largely responsible for the loss of community that is directly correlated to happiness among human beings today, as the stronger our acquiescence to authoritative State powers becomes, the greater our loss of community grows. However, this is a topic likely best suited for a series of podcasts about the necessity for the complete overhaul of the schooling system, and I will address this topic in much more detail in future The Tao of SKWealthAcademy podcasts, so please subscribe to our podcast if interested in this topic as well.   Within the body of this audio podcast, I use examples of both American Indian societies in pre-colonial and colonial America as well as examples of contemporary hunter-gatherer societies to explore the rules and characteristics of their societies that once led a French colonialist living in the new America to conclude, “there must be in their social bond something singularly captivating and far superior to anything to be boasted among us.” It is not necessary for any of us to give up the qualities that existed in their social structure that create lasting and sustainable happiness, and even for those of us that live in urbanized environments, we can still adequately re-create many of these qualities in our lives if we so desire. With that said, I don’t want this article to merely restate everything I discuss in the below podcast, so I will just provide a brief taste of the podcast, and for the sake of avoiding redundancy, allow any one interested in listening to a more in-depth discussion of this topic to merely listen to the audio podcast in full.   Indians ran their communities more like a constitutional republic than American colonial settlers ever did, even after the piece of paper was drafted that made America a constitutional republic. Throughout America’s history, practice never quite lived up to the law of being a constitutional republic. American Indian tribes were much more egalitarian in the distribution of power and authority than any American colony, although tribes had a chief and medicine man who were men in elevated positions of power within their patriarchal society. Still, women were not without power in their tribes. Within the societal hierarchy of most American Indian tribes, women held some type of authoritative power that served as a check on the male leadership of that tribe. For example, in the Iroquis nation, only women could nominate men for positions of leadership and even positions of speaking in...

In the 21st century presidents can't stay out of the spotlight. Barack Obama released his NCAA tournament brackets every year on ESPN, was a regular guest on Jimmy Fallon and the rest of the late night circuit, and was the first president to use Twitter. Donald Trump has gone even further with social media, using Twitter as a permanent means to bypass traditional media channels. But they are not the first consumers, or producers, of popular culture in the White House. Throughout America’s history, occupants of the White House have interacted with and been shaped by popular culture. Our guest today, Dr. Tevi Troy, author of What Jefferson Read, Ike Watched, and Obama Tweeted: 200 Years of Popular Culture in the White House tells us fun and informative little-known anecdotes about everyone from George Washington to Donald Trump, revealing how each one has woven popular culture into different aspects of their leadership. In this episode we learn The literary works that shaped the political philosophy of Thomas Jefferson. Why Abraham Lincoln’s love of theater prompted him to ignore advice from advisors the night of his assassination. That voracious reader Teddy Roosevelt viewed books as job training and didn’t hesitate to read at parties. That Dwight D. Eisenhower loved Westerns so much that his staff struggled to keep him in supply. How Saturday Night Live irrevocably branded Gerald Ford as a klutz, contributing to his 1976 defeat. How Ronald Reagan identified the unifying role of film and often used movie quotes to rouse support. Why Barack Obama used celebrity endorsements to sell his policies to the American people. Tevi is not only a historian of U.S. politics. He was also a high-level player. In 2007 he was confirmed by the U.S. Senate as the Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. He was the chief operating officer of the largest civilian department in the federal government, with a budget of $716 billion and over 67,000 employees. Basically, he controlled Medicaid and Medicaid. In light of his experience Tevi has all sorts of fascinating stories about how the George W. Bush White House used history to dictate policy—in one instance all of Bush's advisors were requried to read a book on the 1918 Spanish influenza epidemic to develop public policy against disease outbreaks. In that position, he oversaw all operations, including Medicare, Medicaid, public health RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE Tevi Troy's Website What Jefferson Read, Obama Watched, and Ike Tweeted Tevi on Twitter   TO HELP OUT THE SHOW Leave an honest review on iTunes. Your ratings and reviews really help and I read each one. Subscribe on iTunes or Stitcher

Video games are amazing. Throughout America there exist a special group of people that take some of video games’ greatest compositions and put their own arranged twist on it for some amazing results. ======Game - Title - cover composer - Original Composer===== 1.) Megaman, Megaman 2 & Megaman 3 - Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra - “Megaman - Suite” Original composer(s): Manami Matsumae, Takashi Tateishi, Yasuaki Fujita & Harumi Fujita Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdVpJfXXoFI 2.) Kid Icarus: Uprising - Alyssa Menes - “Dark Pit” Album: Meet The Light Original composer(s): Motoi Sakuraba, Yuzo Koshiro, Masafumi Takada, Noriyuki Iwadare, Takahiro Nishi & Yasunori Mitsuda Link: https://acmenes.bandcamp.com/releases 3.) River City Randsom - Mega Ran w/Toussaint Morrison (Lazerbeak), The MC Type & Phillip Morris - “River City Handsome” Original composer(s): Kazuo Sawa Link: http://megaranmusic.com/album/river-city-handsome-prod-by-lazerbeak 4.) Terranigma - TheOnlyDeerAlive - “Underworld theme“ Original composer(s): Miyoko Takaoka & Masanori Hikichi Links: https://soundcloud.com/michael-poirier-6 5.) MegaMan X - Protricity - “Mega Man X "Brainsick Metal” Original composer(s): Setsuo Yamamoto, Makoto Tomozawa, Yuki Iwai, Yuko Takehara & Toshihiko Horiyama Link: http://ocremix.org/remix/OCR00569 6.) Earthworm Jim - Mr. Tengu - “New Junk City Remix” Original composer(s): Tommy Tallarico 7.) Ninja Gaiden - MiniBosses - “Ninja Gaiden medley” Original composer(s): Keiji Yamagishi & Ryuichi Nitta Link: https://minibosses.bandcamp.com/ 8.) Journey & Undertale - Taylor Davis - “Journey Medley (Apotheosis & I Was Born For This), Bonetrousle & Megalovania” Original composer(Journey): Austin Wintory Original Composer(Undertale): Toby Fox Link: https://www.youtube.com/user/ViolinTay 9.) Final Fantasy III (Final Fantasy VI) - Jesús Chic Acevedo, Pearl Pixel & ZackParrish - “A Legacy Forgotten (Terra)” Original composer(s): Nobuo Uematsu Link: http://ocremix.org/remix/OCR03034 10.) Shovel Knight - Little V Mills - “Strike The Earth ‘Epic Rock’ Cover” Original composer(s): Jake Kaufman Link: https://littlev.bandcamp.com/ 11.) Donkey Kong Country 2 - Vincent Rubinetti - “Encounter In The Abyss (Lockjaw's Saga)” Original Composer(s): David Wise 12.) The Legend Of Zelda - Lindsey Stirling - “Zelda Medley“ Original Composer(s): Koji Kondo Link: https://www.youtube.com/user/lindseystomp 13.) Super Mario Kart - The OneUps - “Koopa Beach” Original Composer(s): Soyo Oka Link: https://theoneups.bandcamp.com/ 14.) Streets Of Rage 2 - MagicMusicX - "Dreamer (Jazzy Remix)” Original Composer(s): Yuzo Koshiro & Motohiro Kawashima 15.) EarthBound - Super Guitar Bros. - “Winter's White & Snowman” Original Composer(s): Keiichi Suzuki & Hirokazu Tanaka Link: https://superguitarbros.bandcamp.com/ 16.) Castlevania II: Belmont's Revenge - Helicopter Knife Fight - “Whip This Beat (praying Hands)” Original Composer(s): Hidehiro Funauchi Link: http://ocremix.org/album/58/legacy-game-boy-25th-anniversary 17.) Journey to Silius - Ollie Longz (Banjo Guy Ollie) - “Journey to Silius Title Theme” Original Composer(s): Naoki Kodaka Link: https://banjoguyollie.bandcamp.com/ 18.) Metal Gear Solid - Daniel Tidwell- “Main Theme (Metal/Rock Guitar Cover Remix)” Original Composer(s): Kazuki Muraoka, Hiroyuki Togo, Takanari Ishiyama, Lee Jeon Myung & Maki Kirioka Link: https://danieltidwell.bandcamp.com/ 19.) Kirby Super Star - The Kanagawa Philharmonic Orchestra (The Orchestral Game Music Concerts Series) - “The Gourmet Race, Collision Theme & Theme Of Kirby's Triumphant Return” Original Composer(s): Jun Ishikawa & Dan Miyakawa Edgar Velasco: @MoonSpiderHugs FB: www.facebook.com/groups/vgmrevivalhour/ AND NOW AVAILABLE ON GOOGLE PLAY: play.google.com/music/m/I2uvnfvy4…_VGM_REVIVAL_HOUR

Throughout America's history, we have had much for which to be thankful. In today's episode we get a unique view on Thanksgiving and why Americans who want to be part of MAKING AMERICA STRONG AGAIN have a special opportunity. As we begin the Hanukkah and Christmas season, it's a great time to reflect and share fun times with friends and family. At the same time, Americans face significant challenges on many different fronts; financial, political and security. How can we be thankful for the chaos we face? It seems odd to be thankful for the terrorist threats we face. What solace can we take from those who hate America? For many who do not know history, it's easy to believe all this chaos is new. It's not. You will get a look back at America in the 1930's and what newly elected President Franklin D. Roosevelt faced as he gave his inaugural address. How can we benefit from his famous words about FEAR? How did our Founding Fathers deal with FEAR? What can we share with our families and friends as we gather around the Thanksgiving table that will truly make a difference and inspire them!

Throughout America's history, we have had much for which to be thankful. In today's episode we get a unique view on Thanksgiving and why Americans who want to be part of MAKING AMERICA STRONG AGAIN have a special opportunity. As we begin the Hanukkah and Christmas season, it's a great time to reflect and share fun times with friends and family. At the same time, Americans face significant challenges on many different fronts; financial, political and security. How can we be thankful for the chaos we face? It seems odd to be thankful for the terrorist threats we face. What solace can we take from those who hate America? For many who do not know history, it's easy to believe all this chaos is new. It's not. You will get a look back at America in the 1930's and what newly elected President Franklin D. Roosevelt faced as he gave his inaugural address. How can we benefit from his famous words about FEAR? How did our Founding Fathers deal with FEAR? What can we share with our families and friends as we gather around the Thanksgiving table that will truly make a difference and inspire them!

Throughout America's history, we have had much for which to be thankful. In today's episode we get a unique view on Thanksgiving and why Americans who want to be part of MAKING AMERICA STRONG AGAIN have a special opportunity. As we begin the Hanukkah and Christmas season, it's a great time to reflect and share fun times with friends and family. At the same time, Americans face significant challenges on many different fronts; financial, political and security. How can we be thankful for the chaos we face? It seems odd to be thankful for the terrorist threats we face. What solace can we take from those who hate America? For many who do not know history, it's easy to believe all this chaos is new. It's not. You will get a look back at America in the 1930's and what newly elected President Franklin D. Roosevelt faced as he gave his inaugural address. How can we benefit from his famous words about FEAR? How did our Founding Fathers deal with FEAR? What can we share with our families and friends as we gather around the Thanksgiving table that will truly make a difference and inspire them!

Throughout America's history, we have had much for which to be thankful. In today's episode we get a unique view on Thanksgiving and why Americans who want to be part of MAKING AMERICA STRONG AGAIN have a special opportunity. As we begin the Hanukkah and Christmas season, it's a great time to reflect and share fun times with friends and family. At the same time, Americans face significant challenges on many different fronts; financial, political and security. How can we be thankful for the chaos we face? It seems odd to be thankful for the terrorist threats we face. What solace can we take from those who hate America? For many who do not know history, it's easy to believe all this chaos is new. It's not. You will get a look back at America in the 1930's and what newly elected President Franklin D. Roosevelt faced as he gave his inaugural address. How can we benefit from his famous words about FEAR? How did our Founding Fathers deal with FEAR? What can we share with our families and friends as we gather around the Thanksgiving table that will truly make a difference and inspire them!

Throughout America, a growing number of communities have selected their own poet laureate. Among the smallest is Three Oaks, Michigan – population 1,800 – located just across the lake from Chicago. Like countless other rural towns, Three Oaks' economy was decimated by farm consolidation and factory shutdowns, but an influx of artists and creative folks has given it new life, and the newcomers are fostering an unlikely, and sometimes cantankerous, rebirth. Long Haul discusses Three Oaks' reinassance with new residents who "came to make something here," and long-time locals who are coming to terms with the changing reality of their hometown. Produced in 2006; this description is from the original broadcast.