DIG LIFE DEEP!
By The Planet Club
DIG LIFE DEEP!Jul 28, 2023
Political consultant, DR LOUIS PERRON, has worked on dozens of campaigns globally from city mayors to presidents, offering 'proven strategies' to beat incumbents. He discusses Biden vs Trump & more.
Dr. Louis Perron is an internationally renowned political consultant based in Switzerland. He has won dozens of competitive election campaigns in various countries – with his message of discipline, scientific analysis, polling, strategy and focus. He is the author of "How to Overcome the Power of Incumbency in Election Campaigns," as well as, "Beat The Incumbent. Proven Strategies And Tactics To Win Elections" (his latest). His Beat The Incumbent tome offers Dr. Perron's study of the campaigns of Barack Obama (US), Volodymyr Zeleneksy (Ukraine) and Emmanuel Macron (France) and others, while delving into Dr. Perron's strategies of how to beat the incumbent.
For information, go to www.campaignanalysis.com
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Dublin in Flames. Ireland, Sick Political Dog of Europe. Government Embarrassed. 'The current Irish government clearly cares more about praise from woke media than their own people,' says Elon Musk
What triggered the worst riots on the streets of Dublin, Ireland, in decades? The rioting, as it should be, was condemned for its destruction and hooliganism in the wake of a shocking stabbling incident in Parnell Street by a man identified as a naturalized citizen born abroad. The motive for the stabbling, which injured three children and a woman, was not clear. But mainstream media and the Irish government and local police, pinned the blame on right wing extremists. Is that it? The reality could point to something more sinister, a state of affairs given only curt attention, or dismissed in the popular media narratives. On this episode, we'll offer some context and more credible reasons for the mayhem in Dublin.
Here's how the Guardian newspaper covered the riots:
"A strange duality characterised Thursday’s riots in Dublin: the level of violence caught most people by surprise, and yet there was also a feeling of inevitability about it. Ireland’s Booker prize-winning novelist Paul Lynch captured the mood in his acceptance speech on Sunday, when he said he was “astonished” by the disturbances but that the possibility for such disquiet to break out is “always under the surface.
"Few expected to see the capital descend into a violent hellscape during evening rush hour. But factcheckers like myself who monitor Ireland’s far right – as part of our work verifying online content and debunking misinformation – have witnessed how the movement instigated city-wide destruction after building on anti-immigrant sentiment over the past year."
DR. WINSTON ALLEN: Founder of America's first black-owned brokerage, author, inventor, professor & mentor, led Xerox's global training program. He faced barriers. But his love of America endures.
Winston E. Allen, author of “DON’T GET MAD, GET RICH” and “LIVE A PURPOSEFUL AND MEANINGFUL LIFE”, newly published autobiography “I PRIED OPEN WALL STREET IN 1962“, is so much more than the title reveals. Dr. Allen’s book is fascinating, riveting, historical and grossly entertaining, and has been getting much acclaim from critics and the general reading public alike.
The story of Dr. Allen’s true-life experiences that propelled Dr. Allen to ultimately form the first minority owned, independent, broker-dealer firm in the history of the United States. The title captures just a fraction of the extraordinary life of the author.
There are so many stirring experiences told that the reader was compelled to not put this book down. Dr. Allen’s first gripping experience was as a 13-year-old boy, traveling, by train, from New York City to Miami, Florida in a sealed, locked compartment, in 1946 and how this experience shaped his life. Before leaving Penn Station in New York, Dr. Allen learned later in life that his parents provided gratuities to the black porter staff to ensure that their child would arrive safely in Miami. Being locked in this compartment for three days, Dr. Allen would only see the porters when they brought his meals to his compartment.
Before arriving at Union Station in Washington DC, the porters entered his compartment and pulled the curtains shut to make sure no one would see Dr. Allen. Peeking through the curtains, Dr. Allen saw, for the first time, bathroom signs that read “WHITES ONLY” and “COLORED” in bold capital letters.
Thinking, since this is the capital, this is the only time he would see these signs. Dr. Allen recalls, as the train traveled further south, the worse things became. This experience had a great impact on Dr. Allen’s life and Dr. Allen was resolute not to let anything deter him from seizing the advantages of whatever opportunities the future might hold for him.
In 1961, Dr. Allen earned a Fulbright Scholarship to study in Paris at the Sorbonne at the University of Paris. Remembering his 1946 train ride, Dr. Allen expected a similar experience, only to be flabbergasted that in Dr. Allen’s own words, “My ethnicity was never an issue.” This was a new and freeing experience as Dr. Allen traveled widely throughout Europe, never once experiencing any type of bias because of the color of his skin. This, again, was a life changing experience as Dr. Allen was determined never to let his ethnicity in the United States be an impediment in his life.
Returning to the United States in 1962, from his experiences and contacts made in Paris, Dr. Allen decided his career would be within the citadel of capitalism, on Wall Street.
NEWARK'S COLLAPSE & AN EPIPHANY IN CONNEMARA: JACK CASHILL'S monumental new book on the tragic fall of his native NJ city. His true story of white ethnic flight from urban America
Long accused of racism and “white flight,” the ethnic Americans driven from their homes and neighborhoods—the author JACK CASHILL included—finally get the chance to tell their side of the story.
“A startlingly honest and poignant look at ‘white flight’ from the white perspective. A necessary and overdue corrective.” —Brent Bozell III, founder and president of the Media Research Center wrote of JACK CASHILL'S latest book, UNTENABLE. The True Story of White Ethnic Flight From America's Cities. (Post Hill Press)
CASHILL, a native of Newark who now lives most of the year in Kansas City, once asked a lifelong friend, a rare Democrat among the displaced, why he and his widowed mother finally left our block in the early 1970s, twenty years after the first African-American families moved in. He searched a minute for the right set of words, and then simply said, “It became untenable.” When I asked what he meant by “untenable,” he answered, “When your mother gets mugged for the second time, that’s untenable. When your home gets broken into for the second time, that’s untenable.” In researching this project, I found myself repeatedly stunned by the failure of self-described experts on white flight to ask those accused of fleeing why it was they fled. The reason the experts didn’t ask, I discovered, is that they were afraid of what they might learn.
Website: Cashill.com
EDUARD HABSBURG. Archduke of Austria, Hungary's Ambassador to the Holy See, offers his 7 Rules for Turbulent Times, explains Hungary's complicated relationship with the EU and its support for families
Eduard Habsburg is Hungary’s ambassador to the Holy See and the Sovereign Order of Malta. His family reigned in Austria, Hungary, Germany, Spain (and quite a few other places). Also known as Archduke Eduard of Austria, he is a diplomat and social media personality. Eduard and his wife, Baroness Maria Theresia von Gudenus, have six children. Eduard is the author of several books, including the children’s book Dubbie: The Double-Headed Eagle; volumes on Thomas Aquinas, James Bond, and Harry Potter; novels; and screenplays. His latest book, The Habsburg Way. Seven Rules for Turbulent Times, is published by Sophia Institute Press.
RULE OF LAW: American Civil Society Faces Unprecedented Challenge — Yes, Preserving the Union. Plus, IRA WOLFE on harnessing team creativity and collaboration in era of remote work
It's a standoff between the left and right. On the left, sitting US President JOE BIDEN is facing serious allegations of influence peddling and pay for play, as more details and allegations emerge on his son HUNTER BIDEN'S business affairs. On the right, former President DONALD TRUMP faces multiple charges of wrong-doing, and conspiring to defraud the US following the results of the 202 election.
Who's right, who's wrong? That may be less important, oddly enough, than the question on the rule of law. Yes, the biggest test here is the future of American democracy. What matters is the US still stands as a beacon of hope and as a strong democracy for the world to admire, just as despots and crazed leaders outside America roam the world. Listen to our commentary on this episode.
Plus, workforce trends expert, IRA WOLFE, has some robust insights on how to preserve serendipity on the job as remote work raises the stake.
LONELY GENERATION: US Surgeon General Declares Loneliness a Health Crisis. JP Gance Communio's Scientific Study On Biggest Causes & Surprising Victims, Young Americans
Communio, a national nonprofit organization that works with churches to strengthen families and develop stronger faith lives, has released its new Nationwide Study on Faith and Relationships showing that a forty-year decline in marriage and fatherhood has fueled the public health crisis in loneliness and driven the national decline in Christian faith.
The conclusions are drawn from a nationwide survey of 19,000 Sunday church attendees conducted during worship in 112 evangelical, Protestant, and Catholic congregations.
In the wake of the US Surgeon General’s May 2 advisory on loneliness, this study found just 22 percent of church goers were considered lonely. Single church goers were more than three times more likely to be considered lonely than the married. Men and women who had never married in their 30s were more likely to be lonely than the loneliest group of widows.
The collapse of resident fatherhood through the decline in marriage is fueling the direct decline in faith. The study found 80 percent of all Sunday church attendees – single or married, young or old -- in the United States grew up in a continuously married home with both biological parents at a time where this is increasingly rare. This trend held across age groups.
Roughly 1 in 5 married churchgoers struggle (have a satisfaction gap) in their marriage. Women are 62 percent more likely to struggling than men. Cohabiting women were 76 percent more likely to struggle than married women and twice as likely to struggle than cohabiting men.
“To effectively evangelize today, we must address the declining number of marriages, poor marital health and improve the effectiveness of fathers in those marriages,” said J.P. DeGance, President of Communio. “By addressing these three issues, we can end the loneliness epidemic as well as spark a sustained revival in Christian faith and active church attendance. The link between marriage and faith is clear, yet 85 percent of all churches in the United States report spending zero dollars annually on marriage and relationship ministry.”
Communio is a nonprofit that equips to evangelize through the renewal of healthy relationships, marriages, and families.
AGE OF THE DEMONIC: Priest & Hollywood legend, FR GABRIELE AMORTH, performed 60,000 exorcisms. He's named the Pope's Exorcist. Plus, Future Shock 2.0 w/Ira Wolfe
RUSSELL CROWE stars in this year's demonic thriller, The Pope's Exorcist—a true story displaying the life of chief exorcist for the Vatican, FR. GABRIELE AMORTH and his battles against Satan and his demons. Coinciding with this release, The Pope's Exorcist: 101 Questions About Fr. GABRIELE AMORTH, was released in April. See, https://sophiainstitute.com/product/32003/
The editors at Sophia Institute Press—publisher of three best-selling books by FR. AMORTH—separate the fantasy from the facts surrounding what really occurs in exorcisms. They share examples of demonic obsession and possession from Fr. Amorth’s experience. The editors also lay out the alarming cause of most cases of possession (you will never guess the origin!), what exorcism really is, how it is performed, and its biblical history. JORDAN BURKE, featured in this interview, is a spokesman for Sophia Institute Press.
About JORDAN BURKE
After a little over half a decade protecting and serving his community as a Police Officer, JORDAN BURKE traded in his badge and gun for a bible and a rosary. Falling deeply in love with the Church and Her teachings, he dove headfirst into the writings of the saints and all aspects of spiritual theology and hasn't stopped learning since. Combining his love of The Truth, history, and tradition with practical application, Jordan turned his life motto, "Do The Harder Thing," into a program of acquiring virtue and overcoming habitual sin for all who seek to become who God has called them to be. When he's not writing, researching, farming, and praying, he is, most importantly, a loving father of a beautiful little girl and a zealous defender of souls.
RISE OF CONSPIRACY THEORIES: In a world of global disorder and financial chaos, suspicions of sinister cabals plotting anarchy and takeover are surging. Plus, FUTURE SHOCK 2.0 with IRA WOLFE
Conspiracy theories are nothing new in the United States, says Cynthia Miller-Idriss, an American University sociology professor who focuses on extremism and radicalization, but they’ve been able to spread like wildfire over the past decade due to social media, which can easily amplify and circulate misinformation. That's according to FORTESA LATIFI, writing recently in Teen Vogue.
At the height of the Covid pandemic, conditions couldn’t be more ripe for conspiracy theories to took hold. Miller-Idriss says that people tend to turn to conspiracy theories when they’ve lost a sense of control and feel afraid and anxious because these theories can offer comfort in the form of a black-and-white answer. “When people feel out of control, they’re attracted to things that offer them an action path,” Miller-Idriss tells Teen Vogue. “It’s easier to believe in some nefarious orchestration than to believe that there is an invisible virus in the air that could harm their family.”
According to Miller-Idriss, “inexplicable deaths” — whether it’s death on a mass scale, like the pandemic, or the loss of a famous person like Princess Diana — breed conspiracy theories. “When something is so horrifying, it’s easier for people to believe it can’t be true. They can become more vulnerable to conspiracy theories because maybe they can’t psychologically wrap their head around the fact that it is true,” she says. “It’s these episodic, shocking events that create vulnerability."
According to some analysts and conspiracy theorists, there's also a long historical record of the U.S. government lying to its citizens, including about medical experiments, covert surveillance and torture programs, and the existence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Harboring suspicions that the government isn't always telling the full story is a perfectly reasonable response to this pattern of deception, these analysts contend. But sometimes critical thinking and skepticism blossom into something more fanciful and outlandish and a willingness to believe information that matches up with our preexisting political leanings or ideological beliefs. Still, as some historians and researchers note, some though not every conspiracy theories may ultimately blossom into establishments facts. Others should simply be dismisses as fanciful.
Source: Vogue and research
JAMES BARLOW: At 20, he was an eBay power seller generating close to $1M in monthly sales. From humble beginnings, Philadelphia's BARLOW is founder of a 100+ person tech company & a multi-millionaire
James Barlow is a highly accomplished tech and business leader and the Founder of Triumph Technology Solutions LLC, a leading AWS cloud-native services provider with over a decade of experience in the industry. As a skilled entrepreneur, James has a deep understanding of the development of IT Services and Software Businesses with domain expertise in AWS, Fintech, Healthcare, E-Commerce, and more. He has started numerous tech companies, including an eBay-based business, and was generating close to $1m in revenue from eBay sales monthly at the age of only 20 as a “power seller.” James is also a highly skilled DevOps Engineer with experience in various web development technologies. Prior to founding Triumph Technology Solutions, he worked at Jurisdesk Business Web Development as a Lead DevOps Engineer, helping companies develop their online presence and generate leads for their sales teams. With his commitment to staying current with emerging technologies, James has earned certification as an AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner and Solutions Architect. He is also a passionate volunteer and deeply committed to several causes, including civil rights and social action, economic empowerment, education, disaster and humanitarian relief, politics, and science and technology.
BILL DONOHUE: How the Ruling Class Is Killing the American Dream, Hurting Poor, Undermining Family with Bone-Headed Policies. Post-Modernist Nightmare Unfolds.
Bill Donohue was Honorably Discharged from the U.S. Air Force in 1970, and began his teaching career in 1973 working at St. Lucy's School in Spanish Harlem. In 1977, he took a position as a college professor teaching at La Roche College in Pittsburgh. In 1980, Bill was awarded his Ph.D. in sociology from New York University. In 2022, he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Laws from Ave Maria School of Law. Bill is the author of ten books and thousands of articles. His first book, The Politics of the American Civil Liberties Union, was published in 1985. His next book, The New Freedom: Individualism and Collectivism in the Social Lives of Americans, was written while Bill was a Bradley Resident Scholar at The Heritage Foundation; it appeared in 1990. Bill's third book, Twilight of Liberty: The Legacy of the ACLU, was published in 1994; a new afterword to this book was published in 2001. His next book, Secular Sabotage: How Liberals are Destroying Religion and Culture in America, was published in 2009. Why Catholicism Matters: How Catholic Virtues Can Reshape Society in the 21st Century was published in 2012. This was followed by The Catholic Advantage: Why Health, Happiness, and Heaven Await the Faithful; it was published in 2015. In 2016, Unmasking Mother Teresa's Critics was published. Common Sense Catholicism: How to Resolve Our Cultural Crisis, was published in 2019. The Truth About Clergy Sexual Abuse: Clarifying the Facts and Causes was published in 2021. His latest book, War on Virtue: How the Ruling Class is Killing the American Dream was published in 2023 (Sophia Institute Press) .https://www.amazon.com/War-Virtue-Rul... In this monumental book by one of the Church’s greatest contemporary defenders, Bill Donohue explains how the ruling class is systematically undermining the virtues that have built Western civilization and producing a “moral holocaust” that the traditional family cannot withstand. These radical elites have rejected the idea of personal sin and replaced it with social injustice. They’ve rejected traditional values and replaced them with a dangerously misguided individualism that is misusing our liberties to destroy freedom as we’ve known it. In his incomparable, no-holds-barred style, Donohue offers a commonsense solution to restoring the virtues in the workplace and defending universal morality. You will learn the hard-hitting truth about the dangers of multiculturalism, the “blame America” campaign, the Black Lives Matter movement, and Critical Race Theory. In 2023, Bill starred in, and was co-executive producer of, a documentary on Disney, titled, Walt’s Disenchanted Kingdom. Bill is the president and CEO of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, the nation's largest Catholic civil rights organization. The publisher of the Catholic League journal, Catalyst, he served for two decades on the board of directors of the National Association of Scholars. He writes regular columns for CNSNews.com and Newsmax.com. Bill also serves on the advisory boards of many organizations, including the Society of Catholic Social Scientists, and the Christian Film & Television Commission. Winner of several teaching awards, and many awards from the Catholic community, Bill has appeared on thousands of television and radio shows speaking on civil liberties, social issues, and religion. In 2022, he was named by the U.K.’s Catholic Herald as one of the top 250 Catholic leaders in the U.S.
EXCLUSIVE: Statistic Poverty Porn w/ DR STEVEN PAYSON on Extreme Global Hunger - How the World Bank & United Nations Measure It. Fake Economics, Exposed: Its Pervasiveness, Harmfulness & Prevention
World poverty and extreme poverty worldwide are a present and dire reality and danger. According to the World Bank, about 650 million people in the world live below the extreme poverty line, defined as earning less than $2.15 per day. In the United States and other industrialized countries, living on less than $2.15 a day (absolutely, and without additional social assistance) would surely make a person homeless and starving. However, is that also the situation for those poorest 650 million in developing countries who are said to be living below this poverty line?
In this Exclusive expose, DR STEVEN PAYSON, an economist at the US Department of Labor, and professor at the University of Maryland, presents an alternative economic reality. Global poverty is undoubtedly dire, distressing and calls for appropriate policy responses and generous humanitarian aid. However, as DR PAYSON, argues in his latest volume of work, Extreme Poverty in the World: How the World Bank and United Nations Measure It (Fake Economics, Exposed: Its Pervasiveness, Harmfulness, and Prevention), a new presentation of the statistic facts are required, statistics based on purchasing power parity and not on "statistic poverty porn."
DR PAYSON argues that the prices actually paid by the poorest people on the planet can, in fact, be acquired and used by economists to derive more accurate measures of their actual level of well-being. "In this way," DR PAYSON maintains, "the world can have a better understanding of extreme poverty in its truest sense, and can direct assistance to where it is genuinely needed the most."
Order the book here, https://www.amazon.com/Extreme-Poverty-United-Nations-Measure/dp/B0BRLX6H7K
One of SADDEST DAYS in American History. Laughing Stock Abroad, As Trump Faces Soviet Style Show Trial. Doesn't Matter If He Is A Democrat or Republican. Plus, Chat GPT's Upside & Downside
Does this have echoes of the worst excesses of the French Revolution? Take a read of the Statement of Manhattan District Attorney, Alvin Bragg, in the hush money cases against former President DONALD J TRUMP:
TRUMP is charged in a New York State Supreme Court indictment with 34 counts of Falsifying Business Records in the First Degree
“The People of the State of New York allege that Donald J. Trump repeatedly and fraudulently falsified New York business records to conceal crimes that hid damaging information from the voting public during the 2016 presidential election,” said District Attorney Bragg. “Manhattan is home to the country’s most significant business market. We cannot allow New York businesses to manipulate their records to cover up criminal conduct. As the Statement of Facts describes, the trail of money and lies exposes a pattern that, the People allege, violates one of New York’s basic and fundamental business laws. As this office has done time and time again, we today uphold our solemn responsibility to ensure that everyone stands equal before the law.”
This episode will offer an opinion from a non-partisan perspective, arguing that no former or sitting US President or elected leader - from any side of the aisle, should have to face trial at the whims, passions or emotions of the mob on the most flimsy of grounds. This politically charged show trial, Soviet style, could represent one of the lowest moments in American history, and it undoubtedly is one of the saddest. God Save America!
Dr. THOMAS D WILLIAMS, Briebert Rome Bureau Chief, warns of a coming Christian persecution, Churches burned, Christians beheaded. Faith communities driven underground. Brutal government crackdowns.
Dr. Thomas D Williams has penned a hard-hitting and timely new book, The Coming Christian Persecution (Sophia Institute Press). A 2018 visiting research fellow for the Center for Ethics and Culture at the University of Notre Dame, Dr. Williams has written widely on theology, philosophy, ethics, and spirituality. He teaches theology at St. John’s University’s Rome campus and has done extensive media work, including serving as consultant and commentator on faith, ethics, and religion for NBC, CBS, and Sky News in the UK. He was appointed by the Holy See as spokesman for the synod of bishops in 1997 and again in 2001. Williams’s books include Who Is My Neighbor? Personalism and the Foundations of Human Rights and The World as It Could Be: Catholic Social Thought for a New Generation. He is also the author of the children’s book The First Christmas (Sophia Institute Press, 2022). According to recent reports, Christian persecution is rising globally and religious freedom is at major risk. Throughout the Middle East, Asia, Africa, and even in the West, Christian communities are being targeted for their beliefs, whether through violence or public policy, and it’s a trend that continues to escalate and is on our doorstep. In 2020, according to the World Watch List published by Open Doors, 340 million Christians were facing "high levels of persecution." As a response to these injustices, Dr. Thomas Williams, Breitbart Rome Bureau Chief penned a hard-hitting and timely new book that masterfully reveals the state of affairs in countries that systematically persecute Christians—The Coming Christian Persecution issuing March 21st.
GODFATHER Actor GIANNI RUSSO: His Life in the Movies and the Mob; Early Childhood in Little Italy; Surviving Polio; Vatican Bank Courier, Frank Sinatra, Marilyn Monroe. Dustup with MARLIN BRANDO.
GIANNI RUSSO was born in Manhattan in 1943 and raised in the then close-knit Little Italy, and later Rosebank, Staten Island. After reprising Carlo Rizzi in a brief flashback scene at the end of The Godfather Part II, Russo acted in more than 46 films, including Goodnight, My Love (1972), Lepke (1975, as Albert Anastasia), Laserblast (1978), Chances Are (1989), The Freshman (1990), Side Out (1990), Another You (1991), Super Mario Bros. (1993), Any Given Sunday (1999) and Seabiscuit (2003). Russo claims that he started a fledgling career in organized crime working as an errand boy and mob associate for Frank Costello as an adolescent but later abandoned the dangerous and volatile lifestyle of organized crime. The Staten Island Mafioso Tommy Bilotti was reportedly best man at Russo's wedding. Since the beginning of his acting career, Russo owned a Las Vegas restaurant called Gianni Russo's State Street at 2570 State Street on the Las Vegas Strip (closed in 1988), and reportedly defeated 23 federal criminal indictments on a variety of charges stemming from alleged organized crime associations. Russo is also a singer. In 2004, he released a CD called Reflections that pays homage to Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra. Russo owns a wine brand, Gianni Russo Wines, which debuted in 2009. In 2019, he published his memoir, Hollywood Godfather: My Life in the Movies and the Mob. Listen to his podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast...
DR. CHARLES NEMETH: If Happiness Is So Universally Sought, Why Are So Many People Miserably Unhappy?
Dr. Charles P. Nemeth has been an educator for more than 40 years and has spent the vast majority of his professional life in the study and practice of law and justice. In addition, he has published over 50 textbooks and references across multiple editions and is a recognized expert on professional ethics and the justice system, private-sector justice and private security systems. In addition, Dr. Nemeth integrates practical and professional concepts with both classical and medieval thought, especially the ethical and moral principles espoused by Thomas Aquinas, Cicero and Aristotle.
Presently, Dr. Nemeth is Professor and Director of Criminal Justice—and Director of the Center for Criminal Justice, Law, and Ethics—at Franciscan University of Steubenville in Steubenville, Ohio. Prior to this, he was Chair and Professor of Security, Fire and Emergency Management and Director of the Center of Private Security and Safety at John Jay College in New York City. At present Dr. Nemeth continues his association with John Jay College as Professor Emeritus. He has also served as Chief Editor to a peer reviewed journal The Homeland Security Review and is now Editor in Chief of Natural Law and Justice.
It's a RECESSION! CEO reveals a hidden indicator and calls this an ugly downturn. Labor force expert, IRA WOLFE, digs deeper, sees an unusual recession as workers materially disappear!
In this episode, we talk (mostly) all things money, markets and jobs. With all the prognostications from some of the most influential experts on Wall and Main Street mulling a recession, and some seeing it striking America this year, RODNEY McMULLEN, CEO at Kroger Co, the biggest supermarket operator, has nailed it. Consumers are behaving as if they are already in a recession, he says. We'll take a look underneath the hood of this strange and befuddling US and global economy, weigh up where we are at on all cylinders, political and economic. Labor force expert, IRA WOLFE, host of the GEEKS, GEEZERS & GOOGLIZATION Podcast, will help us make sense of all the noise and clutter. We'll also offer a sneak preview of our upcoming interview on HAPPINESS with DR. CHARLES P. NEMETH.
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MARC SEAL, CEO, Sortium, on how Artificial Intelligence will seamlessly make today's world of work barely recognizable with the fastest pace of change in world history.
MARC SEAL, who grew up on Long Island, New York, is the co-founder and CEO of Sortium, a Web3/metaverse technology provider. SEAL has experience in the crypto and NFT markets and in gaming and the metaverse. He spend much of his time working out of Sortium's offices in El Salvador so he has a unique view of its adoption of bitcoin as a national currency. SEAL's unique entrepreneurial journey started when he first developed the concept for a new video game back in 2011. He skipped college and thought about a career in the Marines after high school. Instead, his career put him on on a 14-year journey working on various startups building games and commercial applications, in government, getting involved in early crypto and NFT projects, and then eventually running the Star Wars digital business for The Topps Company and building the ToppsNFTs business onboarding brands such as MLB, Bundesliga, UEFA as well as working with brands such as Disney.
DARSHAN PINDORIA, former monk turned psychologist in London, England, responds to question: Does West idealize human happiness? He talks about the negative 'cross comparative' impact of social media
Darshan Pindoria is a psychologist and mental health expert based in London, England who spent part of his life training to be a monk in India with a religious sect. But becoming a monk and studying to be a psychologist was not his initial career path. A career in Information Technology seemed like his destiny until deeper thoughts took root.
BAN CRYPTOCURRENCY? Is a secretive and shady cartel propping up the price of Bitcoin!? New academic study floats a wild theory on bitcoin market manipulation
According to RAKESH SHARMA, one of the most enduring mysteries of Bitcoin is the identity of its founder, Satoshi Nakamoto. "Little is known about this person or group, and their identity has never been confirmed," the writer adds in a post on Investopedia. "In October 2008, a message signed by Satoshi Nakamoto titled "Bitcoin P2P e-cash paper" announced the creation of the cryptocurrency. For the next two years, Satoshi remained active in the community, communicating with others in the development of the blockchain. Satoshi's last message on the Bitcoin forums was posted in December 2010, though unverified private messages from April 2011 have surfaced." This is an intriguing time for the volatile crypto markets with the spectacular fallout from the collapse of the FTX crypto platform and a blitz of significant pieces on crypto by industry leaders. One piece in the Wall Street Journal calls for a ban on crypto by US regulators following the example of the Chinese government. There is also a controversial theory making the rounds based on an academic study by Sean Griffin that may show evidence of bitcoin being artificially propped up by a secretive group.
Exorcism expert, ADAM BLAI, author, THE EXORCISM FILES, recalls his worst cases of demonic possession, describes ritual satanic abuse, and says Catholic Priests are Enemy #1 for the demonic
Adam Blai, a layman, is a peritus (Catholic Church-decreed expert) in religious demonology and exorcism for the Diocese of Pittsburgh. He has also served as an expert in these areas in training priests, deacons, and laity in many other dioceses. He is an auxiliary member of the International Association of Exorcists, a Vatican-recognized Private Association of the Christian Faithful based in Rome. Over fifteen years of working and training in the exorcism ministry, he has witnessed or experienced a number of miracles, some of which he has been appointed to investigate by the Church. He also works in the tribunal of the Pittsburgh Diocese.
A SECOND CHANCE: With record number of inmates back in prison soon after release, FILCO CARTING leads the way in rehabilitating former prisoners for steady, long-term middle class jobs and lifestyles
Filco Carting is a leader in commercial waste collection services in New York City, offering job and life skills training sessions to members of underserved communities. The trainees, 66% of whom were formerly incarcerated, learn about holding down an important job, safety protocols and what life in the workforce is like. The program operated by FILCO trains participants for careers in waste removal. To date, the program has assisted over 300 people with pathways to apprenticeship.
Source: https://www.filcocarting.com
CHRIS SLATTERY, battling cancer, is as tireless as ever for women in crisis pregnancies despite death threat, vandalism, & a new major emergency for the pro-life movement on the streets of New York.
A native of New York, Chris Slattery followed his dream to support pregnant women and girls in a crisis with practical alternatives to abortion, launching EMC (Expectant Mother Care) FrontLine Pregnancy Centers in mid-town Manhattan in 1985. EMC, led by Chris, was NYC’s first crisis pregnancy center. Chris pioneered the use of onsite ultrasound and pre-natal care in a crisis center in the mid-80s, and introduced 3D and 4D ultrasound in lifesaving work when the technology was first available. He also introduced mobile ultrasounds alongside sidewalk counseling teams in major cities, at abortion clinics.
EMC has offered over 100,000 pregnant women in crisis – free pregnancy testing, on-site ultrasounds, pro-life counseling, onsite subsidized pre-natal care, STD testing, and on-site adoption arrangements, referrals for housing and legal aid, and material assistance. Chris is married to Eileen Tierney, and they have four children. Chris launched the first Mobile Ultrasound Clinic, in a major US city, on the streets of the Bronx, and Jackson Heights, Queens.
EMC launched “Operation FrontLine” in late February 2007, and has drawn national, and local media attention to this innovation, such as a November ’07 profile on the CBN-700 Club, and EMC has been featured on ABC Nightline. Chris was the confirmation sponsor for Dr. Bernard Nathanson, and was awarded the Champion for Life award by John Cardinal O’Connor.
Website: emcfrontline.org
JEREMY TATE on why traditional Classic Learning is surging in America as neo Marxism and new ideologies take root in the mainstream and public education system.
JEREMY TATE is the co-founder and CEO of the Classic Learning Test (CLT), a classical alternative to the SAT. He is a nationally recognized leader in the classic learning movement in K-12 education.
More about the CLT: https://www.cltexam.com
Market 'Wizard' TONY SALIBA: World-renowned trader, crypto expert, investor in nearly 100 companies, Irish golf course owner, his humble childhood, success as options trader, his view on FTX collapse
TONY SALIBA is a world-renowned investment, trading and crypto expert. He has spent decades as a traditional trader and has also entered the crypto investing space becoming a major tech player. He is an internationally renowned business leader, multi-faceted serial entrepreneur, option trading pioneer, master trader and board member of the Chicago Stock Exchange, author, and shareholder, operator, and investor in nearly 100 companies.
Tony has been the founding member of key companies in the trading and tech industries such as Efficient Capital Management, International Trading Institute, Liquid Point, Fortify Technologies, and more. He currently maintains a global team of staffers in offices around the US, UK, India and China helping companies achieve high rates of growth and identifies initiatives to unlock exponential value.
He was one of the featured experts highlighted in the book, Market Wizards, and was recently featured as an expert for a series of articles with Business Insider (found here)
FRANK KING, Suicide Prevention Speaker & JAY LENO writer, on his comic gag w/JP Morgan's JAMIE DIMON & KING's own successful battle with mental illness
Frank King, Suicide Prevention Speaker, a writer for The Tonight Show for 20 years, and a full-time standup comedian for 37 years. He’s fought a lifetime battle with Depression and Chronic Suicidality, turning that long dark journey into 8 TEDx Talks and insights on Mental Health Awareness (only one other person on the planet has 8 TEDx Talks…Bill Gates). Depression and suicide run in his family. He’s thought about killing himself more times than he can count. He’s come close enough to dying by suicide that he can tell you what the barrel of his gun tastes like… He uses his life lessons to start the conversation giving people permission to give voice to their feelings and experiences. He believes that where there is humor there is hope, where there is laughter there is life, nobody dies laughing.
US DOLLAR COLLAPSE: Inflation is one sympton of too much money printing. One more: America's economy has been flirting with the dollar's collapse, moving dangerously close with runaway spending.
On this episode two distinguished experts, NATHAN LEWIS and DICK BOVE, lay out the case for the control of profligate spending and the easy money policies of the US Federal Reserve. This spending, in the form of trillions of dollars in "quantitative easing" by the Fed and massive stimulus programs and outlays by the government, has fueled runaway inflation. It also risks the collapse of the US dollar.
NATHAN LEWIS, an internationally renowned expert on money and taxes, is the co-author of the Inflation: What It Is, Why It’s Bad, and How to Fix It. The book explains what’s behind the worst inflationary storm in more than forty years—one that is dominating the headlines and shaking Americans by their pocketbooks. The cost-of-living explosion since the COVID pandemic has raised alarms about a possible return of a 1970’s-style “Great Inflation.” Some observers even fear a descent into the kind of Weimar-style hyperinflation that has torn apart so many nations. Is this true? If so, what should be done? How should we prepare for the future?
According to the publisher Inflation answers these and other questions in an engaging discussion that draws on the singular expertise of Steve Forbes, chairman of Forbes Media, acclaimed for his insights on money and the economy; Nathan Lewis, internationally renowned expert on money and taxation; and author and journalist Elizabeth Ames.
Website: www.amazon.com/Inflation-What-Why-Its-Bad/dp/1641772433
DICK BOVE is the chief strategist at Odeon Capital Group and covers the bank sector. He is among the most prominent bank industry analysts in the US, often controversial, with a keen and practical sense of history and of events that are often translated into his analysis. Bove attended Stuyvesant High, N.Y., and is a graduate of Columbia University, 1962, majoring in political science.
BOVE began his career in 1965, working for a series of firms including Wertheim, Shearson, Raymond James, Hoefer & Arnett and Punk Ziegel, before it was purchased by Ladenburg Thalmann. Later, Bove joined Rochdale Securities and then eventually moved to Odeon Capital. A widely quoted analyst with some five decades of experience behind him, Bove relies on common sense and macroeconomic trends to forecast markets. He appears regularly on business shows on TV and radio, and is frequently cited in media coverage of Wall Street. On the popular weekly ODEON CAPITAL CONVERSATIONS with MAT VAN ALSTYNE, BOVE provides in-depth analysis and commentary on many of the big market and global trends of our times. ODEON CAPITAL CONVERSATIONS is hosted by JOHN AIDAN BYRNE.
Bove is the author of Guardians of Prosperity: Why America Needs Big Banks (December 26, 2013)
Website: https://www.odeoncap.com/
MARTIN DUGARD #1 NY Times bestseller & BILL O' REILLY'S Killing series co-author, unfolds history in stunning detail in DUGARD's Taking Berlin. DUGARD first started out in a boring corporate job
Martin Dugard is a best-selling American author living in Rancho Santa Margarita, Orange County, California. He and his wife have three sons. His latest book, Taking Berlin. The Bloody Race to Defeat the Third Reich, follows the success of his initial book, Taking Paris, in his World War 11 series. Dugard talks about this acclaimed book in an earlier DIG LIFE DEEP! Podcast. Dugard began writing professionally in 1988. Bored by an unfulfilling corporate marketing job, he began writing articles for endurance sports magazines such as Competitor and Runner's World in the mornings and on weekends. In 1993, inspired after covering the Raid Gauloises adventure race in Madagascar, Dugard left the corporate world to pursue a full-time writing career. Although he has returned to journalism from time to time, as when covering the Tour de France from 1999 to 2008, Dugard's primary focus is writing narrative non-fiction. Dugard wrote his first work of history in 2000. Dugard is know for his fruitful and his productive collaboration on the KILLING series with broadcaster and commentator, Bill O'Really. Their latest is Killing the Legends.
Website:https://www.martindugard.com/
ANDREW GILLSMITH was told early by JEFF BEZOS of his plans to launch Amazon when both worked at a Wall Street firm. GILLSMITH, a technology & religion expert, has penned OUR LADY OF THE ARTILECTS.
Andrew Gillsmith is a science fiction writer whose education in religious studies and passion for the cyberpunk genre has helped inform and mold his style of storytelling. Fittingly, his first job out of school was delivering mail for Jeff Bezos when he was still selling books via Listserv. Since then, he’s worked in a number of interesting roles, including head of customer experience for the Kentucky Derby, leader of a proposed hyperloop project in the United States, head of data analysis for a healthcare company, and SVP of sales for a digital marketing agency. He currently works in publisher development in the programmatic advertising space.
Andrew lives in St. Louis, Missouri with his wife Cheryl and their two young sons.
His new novel, Our Lady of the Artilects, is available for purchase on Amazon.
How Global Economic Chaos Is the Future of Crypto Despite Collapse of Sam Bankman-Friend & FTX. Analysis by Pat La Vecchia, Oasis Pro; Jess Brown, Himalaya Exchange & financial writer Jeffrey Robinson
It's a collapse that some have called crypto's "Lehman moment," according to a stirring account of the fall of the FTX Crypto exchange, the darling of the digital currency jet set. Once valued at multiple billions of dollars, the surprise destruction of Bahamas-based FTX caught many investors, regulators and media mavens completely off-guard. How could this be? Founder Sam Bankman-Friend was the poster boy of the industry, a friend of regulators, lawmakers and celebrities. Sure, he had a strange attraction, a funky hairdo and a stare and look that could melt butter. But this made him all the more special in some -- he was the rockabilly of crypto and he would change the world. That's for sure and the rest is history.
On this episode, we will offer our analysis of the future. Then we will play you three significant interviews with crypto experts and pundits: Pat LaVecchia, CEO of Oasis Pro; Jesse Brown, CEO of Himalaya Exchange and finally best selling author, Jeffrey Robinson who has investigated crypto. The trio have been around the block (chain). You be the judge of what comes next.
RISE OF THE CORPORATE POLICE STATE: Workforce trends expert, IRA WOLFE, says balance, transparency and real productivity are the answer for a safe & wealthy economy in the new surveillance society
A “Millennial trapped in a Baby Boomer body,” IRA WOLFE is recognized as one of the Top 5 Global Thought Leaders on Future of Work and HR and Top 10 for Leadership. He is the president of Poised for the Future Company, founder of Success Performance Solutions, Senior Consultant with Dame Leadership, a TEDx Speaker, Hall of Fame Speaker, and host of Geeks Geezers Googlization podcast, part of the People-Forward Network. His most recent book is Recruiting in the Age of Googlization, now in its 2nd edition, which was selected as one of the top 50 books to read in 2021 by Thinkers360. He is the founder of the Googlization Nation community and a frequent contributor to HR and business blogs including Forbes, Medium, and an expert guest on NTD Business News. He was recently selected as the 2022 HRSouthwest Hall of Fame Speaker inductee.
WEBSITE: https://www.irawolfe.com/
YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/c/IraWolfe/about
RAYMOND ARROYO of FOX News & EWTN discusses America's pain in a candid moment and uplifts with The Wise Men Who Found Christmas, his stunning new Christmas book with surprising new historical evidence
Media personality Raymond Arroyo of FOX News and EWTN is out with his beautiful Christmas book "The Wise Men Who Found Christmas."
In this thrilling, visual adventure capturing the wonder of the Christmas season, New York Times bestselling author Arroyo shares the true, hidden story of the mysterious Magi, who risked everything to discover the truth. Based on new historical evidence, The Wise Men Who Found Christmas is the miraculous, untold tale of three seekers who followed a star and found themselves in the middle of the greatest story ever told. Stunningly illustrated by Diane Le Feyer, this enchanting family keepsake is sure to become part of your Christmas tradition – and a reminder that chasing truth is often the greatest adventure of all.
Also on this episode, ARROYO sums up his view of the great American experiment in democracy and where the nation stands today.
ADOLF HITLER'S DEVOTION TO SATAN: Dr. GERARD VERSCHUUREN, a prolific writer on faith & religion, discusses his new book, Faith That Makes You Think, says the Fuhrer & his associates had a Satan mania
Dr. Gerard Verschuuren has published a new book: Faith That Makes You Think.
In this book, he demonstrates that faith relies on, rather than contradicts, thinking. The Catholic Church, in fact, teaches that there is a strong relationship between faith and reason. St. Augustine could not have said it more clearly when he wrote, “Believers are also thinkers: in believing, they think and in thinking, they believe.… If faith does not think, it is nothing.” This goes against the slogan “Don’t think, just believe,” which gives atheists a powerful weapon to say the opposite: “Don’t believe, just think.” That would give atheists full reign, which they certainly don’t deserve as the book explains.
Faith That Makes You Think is specifically written for Catholics—fallen-away Catholics, lukewarm Catholics, struggling Catholics, would-be Catholics—for all those in search of the truth, as it gives life-saving answers to life-size questions. But this episode of DIG LIFE DEEP! will appeal to a broad audience, people of faith and no faith and of course, Catholic, devout or fallen-away.
The book received many accolades. To read those and to find a few more details about the book, click on this webpage: https://www.where-do-we-come-from.com/book-faith.htm
WALL STREET'S GRAND DECEPTION: Financial industry vet, NORM PAPPOUS, presents the clinical reality of what he sees as deceptive Street practices to lure retail investors' assets without accountability
Financial industry veteran Pappous is pulling back the curtain on how retail wealth management firms actually work and how institutional clients enjoy greater performance transparency. The book offers an expert’s take on deceptive marketing practices and arms investors with the knowledge of how to spot high-quality portfolio advice and avoid falling for a slick salesperson. The start of this book is many years in the making. Pappous was motivated to enter the wealth management industry by deeply personal family tragedy. He explores the compelling reason he entered the field, what he found, and the choices he’s made. Pappous offers key observations in the book, including: *How firms evaluate their financial advisors’ performances, beginning with sales quotas. *Examples of how Wall Street marketing deceives rather than informs, like distorting the results of famous academic studies. *Why you shouldn’t trust the portfolio performance reports generated by your financial advisor. *Surprising secrets about financial advisor rankings and search services. *Why having your financial advisor act as a fiduciary does not actually eliminate conflicts of interest “If you’re going to seek help from a financial professional, you’re going to need to think of self-defense first,” said Pappous. “It’s not paranoia, it is your financial future on the line. Always be watching what your financial advisor is doing.” Wall Street’s Grand Deception is available via paperback for $19.99 or ebook for $9.99. The book can be purchased on October 20, 2022 from Barnes&Noble and Amazon. About Norman D. Pappous Normal D. Pappous, a retired financial markets professional, was motivated to enter the wealth management industry by a personal tragedy. He discovered an industry that is opaque at the expense of its clients and began his mission to get accountability into the hands of the average investor. Norman earned his BS in commerce from DePaul University in Chicago and received his MSc in financial markets and trading from Stuart School of Business at Illinois Tech. Norman began his professional career in London working for global investment banks and hedge funds before coming home to help the average investor navigate the financial markets. Shocked by the misdirection of Wall Street marketing, Norman launched FinancialAdvisorCheck.com, a company that serves the clients of financial advisors by producing—for free— institutional-level, confidential portfolio performance reports without the knowledge of their investment advisors. At one time, Norman held four securities licenses in the US and passed all three regulatory exams he sat for in the UK. He is a Quora.com’s Most Viewed Writer for asset management, financial advisors, and passive/index investing. The Structured Products Association of America gave Norman the Leading Edge Advisor award for his work in derivatives pricing. He’s been featured in The New York Post, Forbes, Investment News, Registered Rep, TheStreet.com, and Frontline on PBS. To learn more, visit www.wallstreetsgranddeception.com
BACKLASH UPSIDE: Crowdfunding platform, GIVESENDGO,. has seen its traffic spike and grow exponentially as competitors in Silicon Valley censor free speech and a variety of wholesome causes
Fundraising platform, GiveSendGo.com, may never have imagined the phenomenal growth ahead when it launched itself about eight years ago. In the last year, its website has seen a one thousand percent increase between June 2021 and June 2022. HEATHER WILSON, GiveSendGo.com co-founder, explains what is propelling a significant amount of this growth - censorship on other platforms such as PayPal
Following are some of GiveSendGo's growth metrics:
- GiveSendGo is in the top 1% of websites visited by traffic in the USA.
- Over 2,055,000 prayers have been posted on campaigns on GiveSendGo.
- Current events increased 85% in 2022 over total years prior.
- Money raised for Churches increased 95% in 2022 over total years prior.
- Medical fundraisers up 70% in 2022 compared to total years prior.
- Emergency fundraisers up 57% in 2022 compared to total years prior.
- Memorial fundraisers up 60% in 2022 compared to total years prior.
- Although California, Texas and Florida have raised the most money, Idaho is the most generous per capita.
- Number of employees increased 1,000%
- GiveSendGo saw the most traffic in three countries: USA, Canada, UK
“The support of our Givers has been astonishing,” said GiveSendGo.com co-founder Jacob Wells. “Our supporters exhibit a special passion for causes and the people behind them. Our company is more than a fundraising website—it is a gathering place for support, prayer and freedom.”
“We are astonished by this level of participation,” said GiveSendGo.com co-founder Heather Wilson. “GiveSendGo’s global reach shows that it is more about money. It is about caring, the desire to help others and the sharing of values.”
Founded in 2015, GiveSendGo.com is currently operating in eighty-six countries around the world.
MORE SIGNS OF GLOBAL RECESSION & DEPRESSION: Wall Street's MIKE OLIVER pointed the way earlier. A look at his forecasts, why easy money could trigger massive burst in assets & living standards
J. Michael (Mike) Oliver, CEO, Momentum Structural Analysis, entered the financial services industry in 1975 on the Futures side, joining E.F. Hutton’s International Commodity Division, headquartered in New York City's Battery Park.
He studied under David Johnston, head of Hutton’s Commodity Division and Chairman of the COMEX. In the 1980s Mike began to develop his own momentum-based method of technical analysis. He learned early on that orthodox price chart technical analysis left many unanswered questions and too often deceived those who trusted in price chart breakouts, support/resistance, and so forth.
In 1987 Mike technically anticipated and caught the Crash. It was then that he decided to develop his structural momentum tools into a full analytic methodology. In 1992 the Financial VP and head of Wachovia Bank's Trust Department asked Mike to provide soft dollar research to Wachovia.
Within a year, Mike shifted from brokerage to full-time technical research. He is also the author of The New Libertarianism: Anarcho-Capitalism.
Website: https://www.olivermsa.com/
RABBI ABRAHAM COOPER of the Simon Wiesenthal Center and the US Commission on International Religious Freedom, discusses the shocking rise in anti Semitism and hate crimes in the age of social media.
Rabbi Abraham Cooper, a native New Yorker who grew up playing baseball with Irish and neighborhood kids in Rockaway, Queens,. is Associate Dean and Director of Global Social Action for the Simon Wiesenthal Center, a leading global Jewish human rights organization.
Rabbi Cooper has been a longtime activist for Jewish and human rights causes on five continents. In 1977, he came to Los Angeles to help Rabbi Marvin Hier found the Simon Wiesenthal Center. Together with Rabbi Hier, Rabbi Cooper regularly meets with world leaders, including Pope Francis, presidents, and foreign ministers to defend the rights of the Jewish people, combat terrorism and promote multi-faith relations worldwide.
Rabbi Cooper is an acknowledged expert on online hate and terrorism and has helped produce and present the SWC’s renowned traveling exhibitions at the Vatican, the UN, Knesset, US Congress, Tokyo, New Delhi, and Buenos Aires. He is a founder of the Global Forum on Anti-Semitism, and Newsweek ranked Rabbis Cooper and Hier as #8 among the 50 most influential rabbis in America. Rabbi Cooper has worked extensively with Arab leaders in the Gulf States and witnessed the historic UAE/Bahrain/Israel Abraham Accords ceremony at the White House.
In 2022, Rabbi Cooper was appointed Vice Chair of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom which tracks violations of religious freedom around the world.
Rabbi Cooper co-authored with Rev. Johnnie Moore, The Next Jihad, based on their interviews in Nigeria with scores of Christian survivors of deadly Islamist terrorist attacks. His op-eds appear in major US and Israeli outlets, in Asia and in the Arab News and Al-Arabiya.
Rabbi Cooper is a recipient of Yeshiva University’s Bernard Revel Community Service Leadership Memorial Award, a recipient of an honorary doctorate from Yeshiva University and the Orthodox Union’s National Leadership Award.
LIVING WITH LESS: After years of a consumer & McMansion lifestyle, LARAINE BENNETT & husband ART have radically scaled back, moved to a small home & minimalist lifestyle. Her new book has full details
Laraine Bennett has a master's degree in Philosophy and has co-authored 6 books with her husband, Art, and one solo book, A Year of Grace: 365 Reflections for Caregivers. She helped create the popular TemperamentQuiz.com. The Bennetts reside in Northern Virginia, have been married for 45 years and have 4 adult children and 8 grandchildren
Laraine Bennett has a master's degree in Philosophy and has co-authored 6 books with her husband, Art, and another solo book, A Year of Grace: 365 Reflections for Caregivers. She helped create the popular TemperamentQuiz.com. The Bennetts reside in Northern Virginia, have been married for 45 years and have 4 adult children and 8 grandchildren.
About The Little Way of LIving with Less by Laraine Bennett
From the publisher, Sophia Institute Press
website: https://www.sophiainstitute.com/products/item/the-little-way-of-living-with-less
Do your possessions “spark joy”? In our materialistic society, we are often plagued with the slow torture of accumulated stuff, which creates disharmony, prevents us from living in the present moment, and keeps us from setting our eyes upon Heaven.
The Little Way of Living with Less is a spiritual journey guided by St. Thérèse of Lisieux toward a “less is more” manner of living. It shares one couple's effort to downsize, declutter, and detach — and the challenge of growing in virtues that is associated with this process. Indeed, this book serves as a practical antidote to the consumerism and commodification of daily home life today.
Through the words and example of the Little Flower, you will find peace, joy, and security as you learn how to overcome disorder — whether physical, mental, or spiritual. St. Thérèse will help form you in single-mindedness to complete the ordinary with extraordinary, selfless love, and you'll soon find yourself becoming intentional about making God the center of your life and your home.
Best of all, you will discover that “everything is grace” (St. Thérèse) and will begin thanking God for your many blessings and experiencing His miraculous favors with greater mindfulness. Inspired by the Little Way, you will more confidently seek the things above and “choose all” in holiness. Let “the greatest saint of modern times” show you how to:
- Let go of clutter, unhealthy habits, vices, and sin
- Simplify your life and manage fear and anxiety
- Create order, beauty, and vibrancy in your home
- Detach from the world, cultivate poverty of spirit, and attain Heaven
- Find the happiness and gratitude that come from within
- Become humble and small, trusting in the mercy of God
By living an integrated life that is free of materialistic pleasures, you will develop the freedom of a child of God to abandon yourself to the Father's will. Enter into the Heart of Jesus and make room in your heart to experience the wonders of His love!
KIDNAPPED IN IRAQ: A Christian humanitarian, ALEXANDRE GOODARZY, now reveals the shocking details of his captivity in 2020 by Islamic militants in Iraq
Alexandre Goodarzy, 38, has come a long way. Kidnapped a year ago by a Shiite militia in Baghdad, this volunteer from the SOS Chrétiens d’Orient association spent two months in secret, tossed around from cache to cache, before being miraculously released.
ABOUT KIDNAPPED IN IRAQ:
Blindfolded, tied, prodded by guns, Alexandre faced intense interrogations, fearing all the while that torture and death were imminent.
In Kidnapped in Iraq, Alexandre Goodarzy describes in gripping detail his abduction by Islamic terrorists in January 2020, how prayer and his Catholic Faith sustained him, and why he now views the entire ordeal as a blessing from God.
After learning of the fate of untold Christians in the Middle East, Alexandre was among a cadre of young men who agreed to assist Christians in danger. As the war in Syria quickly turned into a religious war, Alexandre provided aid to Christians there who were caught between a hardening regime and increasingly bloodthirsty Islamist groups.
The brutalization of Syrian Christians was only recently exposed, since the real story was often distorted by the media. In recent years, Syrian Christians faced the grim choice of fleeing from ISIS and abandoning their homeland or enduring barbaric martyrdom. Their cities were leveled and their churches destroyed. Goodarzy describes how these Christians, loyal to their country, were sporadically kidnapped by Kurds and held for ransom or forced into military service. In Syria, priests provide both spiritual and temporal care, assisting with basic necessities in the community and working to preserve their culture while mediating with secular authorities.
In what reads like a dystopian thriller, Alexandre describes the dangerous episodes he experienced assisting Christians, including the perilous twelve-hour bus ride from Damascus to Aleppo and the numerous face-to-face encounters with Islamic rebels — the last of which resulted in his abduction and sixty-six-day captivity by Iraqi terrorists.
“What is affecting us here today will strike you tomorrow!” people in Iraq and Syria told Goodarzy, predicting that the radical Islamic atrocities in their countries would soon assail France and other Western countries.
Kidnapped in Iraq is a riveting story of bravery and courage and one man's extraordinary efforts to aid Christians in need. It is also a chilling guidebook on how to fight for justice and proclaim the hope that comes in the triumph of the Cross.
https://www.sophiainstitute.com/products/item/kidnapped-in-iraq
Wall Street's renowned ALAN PATRICOF shares his personal story on loss of his wife, SUSAN PATRICOF from ALZHEIMERS. CaringKind CEO, ELEONORA TORNATORE, updates on the support group's mission.
CaringKind, New York City’s leading expert on Alzheimer’s and dementia caregiving hosts their 34th annual CaringKind Alzheimer’s walk on September 25h at the Coney Island Boardwalk and on October 23th at Central Park’s Naumburg Bandshell. The purpose of the Walk is to raise awareness around the importance of caregiving support and to raise funds for the myriad programs offered through CaringKind to support caregivers and their families. This year, the event honors prominent philanthropist, Susan Patricof, who passed in January of 2021 after being diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease 12 years ago. The wife of renowned Alan Patricof, one of the founding fathers of venture capital, the two were described as an ‘indomitable pair’ and worked side by side on countless causes. Alan Patricof found solace and support in CaringKind, utilizing their programs and systems as a caregiver himself. CaringKind’s support groups are led by trained facilitators and provide caregivers the opportunity to discuss the many challenges of caring for a family member with Alzheimer’s and related dementias, with others who understand. Their goal is to provide a safe setting which promotes mutual support, both practical and emotional, throughout the course of the disease.
“I am honored that this year's Alzheimer's Walk by CaringKind, the Heart of Alzheimer's Caregiving, will be held in my wife, Susan's name. She loved New York City and was devoted to and supported many of its most important organizations. I know from personal experience the value of having support groups. A regular check-in with other caregivers is critical to a person's mental and emotional health. CaringKind does that better than anyone," said Alan Patricof. The 2022 Walk Chair is Dr. Mauricio Gonzalez. With over 1 million followers, Dr. Mauricio is a social media star offer critical health care advice. Dr. Mauricio is leveraging his community in support of Alzheimer’s and dementia caregiving. The Manhattan Walk will feature celebrities like NFL Star Leonard Marshall and television and movie star Richard Kind. Back by popular demand, the Blue Angels drumline will lead the walkers to the start and celebrate Walkers at the finish line. Attendees (both virtually and in person) are encouraged to share memories and photos of loved ones to be incorporated into the CaringKind Memory Wall, a physical manifestation of the love, remembrance, promise, and hope the Walk represents. As of August 9th, sponsors include Mount Sinai, Inspir Carnegie Hill, Pitta & Baione, LLP, The Brielle at Seaview, The Bristal, 80th Street Residence, LittmanKrooks, GrimaldiYeung, LLC, and Eisai.
CaringKind’s mission is to create, deliver, and promote comprehensive and compassionate care and support services for individuals and families affected by Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias. They achieve their mission by providing programs and services for individuals with dementia, their family, and professional caregivers, increasing public awareness, collaborating with research centers, and informing public policy through advocacy. In 2021, CaringKind answered 6,100 helpline calls, initiated 1,000 social work consultations, supported 31,500 people in their Wanderer’s Safety program, and hosted 83 different support groups facilitated by a trained leader both virtually and in person.
PROJECT 21'S CRAIG DeLUZ on why convervative black leaders demand Verizon reinstate One America News on its television platform. DeLUZ, a successful media exec, discusses critical race theory & more
Black leaders from Project 21 demand that Verizon reinstate One America News (OAN) on its television platform. In a letter signed by 37 members representing the communities of business, politics, media and faith, Project 21 explained that Verizon did "a tremendous disservice to its subscribers, investors and free speech [and]... is silencing black voices" when it canceled OAN. Verizon stopped carrying OAN on its Fios platform at the end of July. Its cancellation marked the end of a 17-year relationship between the news channel and the carrier. Left-wing groups are aggressively pushing media companies to drop the conservative-leaning OAN from their platforms.
In the letter, Project 21 said: "Do what's right for black America, for your investors and for the country by reinstating OAN immediately." In the letter addressed to Verizon Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Hans Vestberg, the three dozen Project 21 signors criticized the abrupt decision that appeased political special interests over viewers, noting this imperils access to information and debate: "Allowing a political pressure campaign to decide which news and information programs Americans have access to undermines free speech and sets a precedent that will only encourage further demands. This is particularly dangerous as this pressure appears to only go one way - anti-conservative and, in this case, anti-black." "You have now projected weakness, inviting those further demands," Project 21 warned Vestberg. It was suggested Verizon's capitulation could lead to the removal of other channels in the future.
Among those who signed the letter to Verizon are Project 21 Chairman Horace Cooper; Stacy Washington, a host on SiriusXM satellite radio; Alveda King, founder of speakforlife(.org) and niece of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.; Star Parker, president of the Center for Urban Renewal and Education (CURE); Julian Boykin, CEO of Acquisition Consulting Experts; Reverend Albert Sampson, president of the Chicago's Metropolitan Council of Black Churches and Chris Arps, host at NewstalkSTL-St. Louis.
A full copy of the letter and its signers is available at https://nationalcenter.org/project-21-oan-letter. Project 21, a leading voice of black conservatives for over 25 years, is sponsored by the National Center for Public Policy Research. Its members have been quoted, interviewed or published over 40,000 times since the program was created in 1992. Contributions to the National Center are tax-deductible and greatly appreciated, and may be earmarked exclusively for the use of Project 21.
EXCLUSIVE: THOMAS REEMER'S audacious plan for Space Villages on earth & $55 million in prize money for a reality-style global television contest that will fly the winner on a seven day trip to space
Space Hero plans to be the world’s first-ever global competition series where contestants compete for a $55-million, seven-day trip to space; the biggest prize ever awarded on TV. The competition for this once-in-a-lifetime journey will be open to anyone over 18 who speaks English. The creators say this is the remarkable journey of heroes from all over the world to be elected by the global public as their representative of humankind in Space. Space Hero has established relationships with over 145 government agencies worldwide. Lava and One Digital Entertainment recently announced plans for the creation of Space Village, a series of 10 iconic futuristic space-inspired landmarks in different locations around the world. Space Village is designed by Alexander Rieck from German architectural firm LAVA. Each Space Village will feature a large space center and a glimpse of forward-looking technology that will stimulate the visitor’s imagination. A media studio to produce Space Hero, the global competition series, and an iconic hotel, where fans of the series can watch events unfold in real-time, will add to the first-of-its kind features that Space Village will offer. As part of the Space Hero series, 24 Space Hero finalists complete numerous challenges in a setting that resembles the various conditions in space to prepare for an extraordinary mission, including thriving underwater in a buoyancy tank. The challenges will resemble the endurance tests astronauts must complete when training for a mission. Inside Space Village, the finalists’ living quarters will model spacecraft conditions and finalists will be challenged to create their own energy and grow food. A jury, which will include a group of experienced astronauts, scientists, and professional athletes, will observe the finalists’ behavior and character. Global audiences will be able to vote for their favorite finalist during weekly episodes. “Visitors to Space Village will experience what life could be in 30 years; sustainable, yet comfortable, healthy and happy, “said Thomas Reemer founding partner of TDGA Holdings Limited, owner of the Space Hero IP. “We want to show our visitors a future that they can look forward to, using the endless possibilities our planet has to offer.” “Traveling to the stars continues to be the dream of millions of people around the world, and the Space Village will offer visitors that space-themed futuristic thrill of a lifetime,” said Deborah Sass, a founding partner of TDGA Holdings Limited, owner of the Space Hero IP. “Children will be inspired to prepare for a career in Space and join exhibitions to the Moon, Mars and beyond,” she added. “We didn’t just want to simulate a space craft or living on Mars but showcase how technology that is developed for conditions in Space, is benefitting the future of living on planet Earth. With 10 more Space Villages to be built all over the World, we have a chance to explore any living condition and how to react to it”, said Rieck, who is also a professor at the renowned Fraunhofer Institute. “Space Village brings back the hope for an astonishing future world full of miracles. It connects the old dream of travelling to the stars with more actual needs of a sustainable, healthy, and healing earth,” Rieck added. “We see this as an opportunity to not just build something extraordinary but also extremely futuristic, as people on Earth are inevitably finding ways to live sustainably in the future. We believe that we will create experiences and motivate people in general on all elements of travel, sustainability, and empathy for our environment. Space comes closer with jaw dropping experiences for everyone, which only a handful of a lucky few have experienced so far. We are fully capable technologically and at scale to make this a global success,” said Shabir Momin & Gurpreet Singh, Founders of One Digital Entertainment.
JEFF WEBB: Founder of multi-billion dollar Varsity Spirit on how to restore the beleaguered American middle class & on his rise and success as an acclaimed entrepreneur
Jeff Webb is a renowned business entrepreneur, founder and chairman of Varsity Spirit which he started in his apartment in 1974 and is now a multibillion-dollar company with more than 5,000 employees. He recently refocused his efforts as President of the International Cheer Union, where he was able to secure cheerleading as an official Olympic sport in 2021. Jeff is also the Publisher for Human Events — a longtime Washington, D.C.-based conservative website and author of the Amazon bestseller American Restoration: How to Unshackle the Great Middle Class.
International Cheer Union: cheerunion.org
Human Events: humanevents.com
THE FED IS WATCHING! PAT LA VECCHIA who runs a Wall Street platform for digital securities, says cryptocurrency is unleashing a chain of unprecedented events, from privacy fears to China's rise
Pat LaVecchia is CEO of Oasis Pro Markets LLC, the first US-regulated alternative trading system (“ATS”) authorized to allow its Subscribers to trade digital (“blockchain”) securities and make payments for those digital securities in digital cash. Over his 30 year career, he has led capital markets teams and spearheaded the financing, acquisition and/or sale of well over 150 companies involving transactions comprising of over $20 billion across a variety of industries including technology, fintech, and blockchain.
ANTI-SEMITISM SURGES, AGAIN: Human rights lawyer, BROOKE GOLDSTEIN, takes us behind the scenes of global anti-semitism & the controversy at New York's CUNY, America's largest public university system
BROOKE GOLDSTEIN, an award-winning documentary filmmaker, is a human rights lawyer and the founder and executive director of The Lawfare Project, a nonprofit organization dedicated to raising awareness about and facilitating a response to the abuse of Western legal systems and human rights law. She is also the founder and director of the Children’s Rights Institute (CRI), a nonprofit organization whose mission is to track, spotlight, and legally combat violations of children’s basic human rights around the world. CRI has a special focus on the state-sponsored indoctrination and recruitment of children to become suicide-homicide bombers, child soldiers, and human shields. Both The Lawfare Project and End Jew Hatred, which works alongside The Lawfare Project, work diligently to fight Jew hatred in the courts and on social media. Currently, End Jew Hatred has a major push to fight the latest reported cases of Jew hatred in the CUNY university system in New York.
Website: https://www.thelawfareproject.org/
JULIAN RAVEN'S ACCLAIMED TRUMP-INSPIRED ART REJECTED BY SMITHSONIAN: Artist goes to court, launches campaign against Smithsonian 'corruption'
Julian Raven’s art and love for his adopted country and its freedoms collided in the 2016 presidential election to raise questions about the First Amendment and the authority of the Smithsonian Institution.
In his new book, Odious & Cerberus: An American Immigrant’s Odyssey and His Free Speech Legal War Against Smithsonian Corruption, artist Julian Raven details how he used his art to participate in the American political process—and the enormous personal toll it took.
“Breaches of trust and the silencing of any person’s First Amendment protected free speech within institutions of learning, regardless of that person’s political leanings, trip the alarm of injustice and freedom,” said Raven.
Raven’s painting Unafraid and Unashamed featured Donald Trump alongside a bald eagle, was his enthusiastic expression of support for his choice for president. He used his own resources to transport the painting to Iowa to campaign for Trump in the caucuses. After several attempts to present the painting to Donald Trump, and after showing it at a political art convention, he offered to loan the painting to the National Portrait Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution.
Raven filed an application with the Rockwell Museum Art in Corning, New York, a Smithsonian affiliate, to loan the painting to the museum in Washington prior to the inauguration, he was curtly told by Director Kim Sajet the painting was “not painted from life,” “too pro-Trump” and, finally, “no good.” This led to a lawsuit and a pro-se appeal that went as far as the Supreme Court.
Mr. Raven has proposed and advocates for a Constitutional amendment to define the legal status of the Smithsonian as a private trust or an instrument of the government and require greater transparency in its operations.
Julian Raven was born in England, raised in Spain and became a United States citizen in 2015. He is a commercial artist.
CRYPTO'S SECOND COMING? JESSE BROWN, CEO, Himalaya Exchange, lays out a bright future for cryptocurrency, fights back criticism, explains how a Ferrari was bought with his Himalaya Dollar stable coin
Jesse Brown is CEO, Himalaya Exchange, a cryptocurrency exchange specialized in the Himalaya Dollar the Himalaya Coin. The exchange lists its headquarters in the British Virgin Islands Brown has years of technical experience as a lead blockchain architect in several start-ups and award-winning Wall Street blockchain projects. One project he was leading was recognized as a top 50 Blockchain in 2020 by Forbes.
What is the Himalaya Ecosystem?
The world is undergoing a financial revolution, with the advent of blockchain technology and cryptocurrency establishing a new monetary paradigm, according to the Himalaya Exchange. "The Himalaya Exchange is at the heart of this revolution," it says. "Our values, mission, and company spirit is to create a world where people have complete control over their money, data, and destinies."
The ambition to create world-changing financial solutions fuels our innovation; the Himalaya Exchange is not just a coin or an exchange but an infrastructure of the world’s first true crypto ecosystem. We are the first and only company building an end-to-end, blockchain-based integrated financial system, encompassing a unique cryptocurrency (Himalaya Coin), a stable coin (Himalaya Dollar), an exchange platform (Himalaya Exchange), and a payment application (Himalaya Pay). A new financial system that provides freedom for all, using blockchain technology to deliver innovative, affordable, and secure services.
Source: https://blog.himalaya.exchange/himalaya-exchange-envisioning-the-future-e9e9e4e78da6
INFLATION'S NEW RECORD: Internationally renowned money & taxation expert NATHAN LEWIS, author, INFLATION, joins famed bank analyst, DICK BOVE, to explain the causes and cures of our soaring prices
NATHAN LEWIS, an internationally renowned expert on money and taxes, is the co-author of the Inflation: What It Is, Why It’s Bad, and How to Fix It. The book explains what’s behind the worst inflationary storm in more than forty years—one that is dominating the headlines and shaking Americans by their pocketbooks. The cost-of-living explosion since the COVID pandemic has raised alarms about a possible return of a 1970’s-style “Great Inflation.” Some observers even fear a descent into the kind of Weimar-style hyperinflation that has torn apart so many nations. Is this true? If so, what should be done? How should we prepare for the future?
According to the publisher Inflation answers these and other questions in an engaging discussion that draws on the singular expertise of Steve Forbes, chairman of Forbes Media, acclaimed for his insights on money and the economy; Nathan Lewis, internationally renowned expert on money and taxation; and author and journalist Elizabeth Ames.
Website: www.amazon.com/Inflation-What-Why-Its-Bad/dp/1641772433
DICK BOVE is the chief strategist at Odeon Capital Group and covers the bank sector. He is among the most prominent bank industry analysts in the US, often controversial, with a keen and practical sense of history and of events that are often translated into his analysis. Bove attended Stuyvesant High, N.Y., and is a graduate of Columbia University, 1962, majoring in political science.
BOVE began his career in 1965, working for a series of firms including Wertheim, Shearson, Raymond James, Hoefer & Arnett and Punk Ziegel, before it was purchased by Ladenburg Thalmann. Later, Bove joined Rochdale Securities and then eventually moved to Odeon Capital. A widely quoted analyst with some five decades of experience behind him, Bove relies on common sense and macroeconomic trends to forecast markets. He appears regularly on business shows on TV and radio, and is frequently cited in media coverage of Wall Street. On the popular weekly ODEON CAPITAL CONVERSATIONS with MAT VAN ALSTYNE, BOVE provides in-depth analysis and commentary on many of the big market and global trends of our times. ODEON CAPITAL CONVERSATIONS is hosted by JOHN AIDAN BYRNE.
Bove is the author of Guardians of Prosperity: Why America Needs Big Banks (December 26, 2013)
Website: https://www.odeoncap.com/
MISSIONARY OF WALL STREET: STEPHEN AUTH, CIO at one of Wall Street's top money managers, on how his group brings New Yorkers back to God; his near death experience & new book, PILGRIMAGE TO THE MUSEUM
Stephen Auth has had a long career on Wall Street, first with Prudential Investments in the 1980s and 1990s, and since 2000 with Federated Investors, where he serves as executive vice president and a chief investment officer of Federated Global Equities. Steve is a frequent guest on CNBC, Fox Business News, and Bloomberg TV, a long-standing participant in Barron’s annual investment outlook panel, a member of The Economic Club of New York and The New York Society of Security Analysts, and a chartered financial analyst (CFA). He earned his undergraduate degree at Princeton University, where he graduated summa cum laude, and his graduate degree at Harvard Business School, where he was a Baker Scholar.
Steve is a member of the Regnum Christi movement and sits on the national board of the Lumen Institute, which he helped found in New York. He has participated in missions in Mexico, and with his wife, Evelyn, has led the New York City street mission for ten years. Steve and Evelyn are involved in a number of other apostolic activities, including a spiritual tour of the Metropolitan Museum of Art called “Man’s Search for God: A History of Art through the Prism of Faith,” which they developed and give on occasional Friday evenings. Steve also serves on the board of the Program for Church Management, being developed in Rome by the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross.
Steve and Evelyn have two wonderful sons, Richard and Michael Auth.
ABOUT PILGRIMAGE TO THE MUSEUM
Have you ever visited a museum and found the narrations in the self-guided-tour headsets a bit tedious? Slightly too clinical, perhaps? And have you ever noticed that God is rarely mentioned in art museums these days, unless in a cold, archaeological, “scientific” way? All of that is about to change.
In Pilgrimage to the Museum, author-curator Stephen Auth takes you on a provocative and colorful journey through the history of Western art, interpreted through a lens of profound Christian faith — appropriately so since, in Auth’s view, much of Western art expresses humanity’s search for God, the Divine Artist-Creator.
In this beautifully illustrated voyage, drawn largely from works on display at New York’s popular Metropolitan Museum of Art, you will experience the ups and downs of humanity’s determined quest. Leaving all the art-history jargon at the front door, Auth will transport you in his spiritual time machine from Egypt’s Old Kingdom, through Greece and Rome, to medieval Europe; from the age of the Renaissance, through the Ages of Exploration and Enlightenment; and from the rise of atheism in the late 1800s to the seeds of a spiritual rebirth in the modern era. Along the way, you will experience anew the masterpieces of many artists, from Polykleitos to Raphael, Duccio to Rembrandt, Monet to Picasso.
Through the works of these great artists, you will encounter the profound truths that lead many to God and cause many others to wonder. You will discover how various themes and motifs of man’s struggle to find God occur, morph, fade, and then reoccur centuries later. As you laugh, cry, and pray your way through this illuminating voyage, you will emerge refreshed and renewed in your own journey to God— and you will never look at a work of art the same way again.
Source: SOPHIA INSTITUTE PRESS
Website: www.sophiainstitute.com/products/item/pilgrimage-to-the-museum
DR WARREN FARRELL: Dad’s 'Right to Care' missing from the Abortion Debate, he says, discussing America's Boy Crisis & the tragedy of mass shootings
Dr. Warren Farrell is a pioneer in both the women’s movement (elected three times to the Board of the National Organization for Women in NYC) and the men’s movement (called by GQ Magazine “The Martin Luther King of the men’s movement”). He was named by the Financial Times as one of the world’s top 100 thought leaders.
Dr. Farrell has appeared on over 1000 TV shows, including being interviewed repeatedly by Oprah, Barbara Walters, and Tucker Carlson, as well as by Sean Hannity, Peter Jennings, Katie Couric, Larry King, Regis Philbin and Charlie Rose. He has frequently written for and been featured in The New York Times and publications worldwide.