Carlos Miller, Photographer
2/24/10 Meria interviews multi-media journalist Carlos Miller. Carlos was arrested twice for taking photographs of police in Miami. Is photography a crime? What’s the difference when a cop takes a photo or a journalist does? Worldwide police brutality; the 1st Amendment; standing up for your rights; don’t back down, keep filming; cops need to change their image; Carlos’ “sarcasm” disclaimer; taser attacks by cops; tapes disappeared; tasering children and grandparents; Libertarians and Ron Paul’s event; the drag of going to trial; “cop watch”; honest cops are forced to resign; Seattle artist sues man for photographing a public work of art; Taser Intl’s new cameras on helmets of cops; Is it legal for a cop to confiscate your camera? Real or FX? Never leave home without a camera and don’t be afraid to use it..
Will Thomas, Journalist, Author
2/23/10 Meria interviews Will Thomas, professional journalist and author. Will authored “All Fall Down” the first 9/11/01 book, “Days of Deception” and more. Are cell phones safe? Wireless electromagnetic radiation interacts with chemtrails, the single biggest pollutant on the planet; 2nd hand radiation from cell phones & towers; Sexting-young-old; young kids and cell phones-by 30 they won’t be able to function due to early onset of alzheimers; zombie nations; demand a guarantee – memory loss,blindness, etc. Wearing glasses raises risks; physical and social addiction “ABC of Cell Phones”; tv and mind control;portable phones; wireless routers; DNA changes; increases in car crashes; hands free – 10x the radiation; body scanners – frequencies even worse; infertility rates rising; pagers-no radiation; humans and the planet are analog, not digital; serving our machines; blood phones – coltan; fiber optics and corded phones. Powerful information!
Conn Hallinan, journalist
2/17/10 Meria interviews Conn Hallinan, Analyst “Foreign Policy in Focus” and columnist for Berkeley Daily Planet. Is Afghanistan a “good war”? Is Yemen the new enemy? U.S. involvement in Yemen goes back forty years; Control of the Indian Ocean and Red Sea – China; Checkmating China; Afghanistan and Yemen are connected, the regional impact of Afghanistan on India and Pakistan; war games could go nuclear; no such thing as “a local nuclear war”; Giving India nuclear material a big mistake, starting a whole new nuclear arms race; India not a signer on the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty; scattering the Taliban we’ve made it worse; political differences cannot be solved militarily; energy security and Afghanistan, the crossroads to Asia and Caspian oil reserves; Controlling China’s energy sources; England’s 4th war in Afghanistan; will there be a draft? 3 Talibans in Afghanistan; the Taliban Peace Plan; surge won’t work; U.S. has been in Yemen since 1979; USS Cole; Underwear bomber; Port of Aden; Horn of Africa – the jugular veins of China; Africom – why? End of old empires; solutions for future; Afghanistan-the graveyard of empires.
Go Veg! Get Healthy!
2/9/10 Meria interviews Susan Levin, Director of Nutrition and Education with Physicians Committee For Responsible Medicine on Dr. Neal Barnard, Dr.John McDougall and Dr. Dean Ornish’s “21 Day Kickstart” Program. Sign up and begin on March 1st.Many people have asked how to get started on healthy eating, here it is and it’s FREE. Motivation to get started; the 3 week plan; “Breaking the Food Seduction” (see archives); community forum; constipation, joint pain, weight loss, better skin,improved lab tests;good side effects; reversing time by changing your diet; Obama’s health care? What about prevention? cleansing your palate from fat, sugar, etc; cooking vegetarian;movie stars who are vegan; salmonella comes from intestine – factory farms; blood pressure; protein in everything we eat; 1/3 of broccoli calories are protein; Americans eat too much protein; Protein diseases; calcium and bone disease; what you get when you sign up! Sign up today!
Richard Grove, Publisher Tragedy and Hope
2/3/10 Latest episode of Tragedy and Hope with Meria & Richard Grove, the education continues; education not distraction; 1947 article “The Lost Tools of Learning”; learning how to learn; liberal arts; schools for elite and wealthy teach the trivium; “20/20 Hindsight”; Richard’s whistleblowing in 2003; who sponsors your alternative/lamestream media? free will; JP Morgan, Federal Reserve profits up; Ponzi schemes; regulation; SEC’s Goldman Sachs 29 yr old investigator; million dollar education, what’s being concealed? Create a massive global awakening of consciousness; the Trivium method of thinking – Grammar, logic and rhetoric together; polls tell you what to think; “think, observe, discern” and make independent decisions; how to put the trivium into action; reading is fundamental;lst hand thinkers vs. 2nd hand thinkers; examples of using the trivium;Write editors@tragedyandhope.com
