His plan to toughen up his sons by taking them into the
desert without food or water
Transporting his wives and children to the
rough terrain of Sudan, where he claimed to be preparing them
for attacks from western powers, commanding them to dig holes,
and to sleep in those holes, allowing nothing more than sand and
twigs for cover
Omar's horror at the murder of a boy his own
age, by members of a jihadist group living among them in the
Sudan.
Omar's observations of his father, his
cohorts, and life in Tora Bora offer a fascinating perspective
on the lives and interactions of the men who would become the
world's most wanted terrorists.
What happened in the Jeddah bin Laden home
on the morning of September 11, 2001, and Omar's surprise phone
call with his mother, who escaped from Afghanistan only two days
before the shattering events that killed so many innocents.
2011-04-24 Robert Groden
principal consultant to Oliver Stone for Hollywood film JFK
Robert
walks us through the film JFK and explain the true research behind
all the scenes in the movie. Who knew in advance of the
assassination. How evidence was tampered with. The magic bullet.
Smoking guns. The cover-up. What drove Oliver Stone despite the
demonization of his film. Robert will also reveal what took place
behind the scenes as well. Robert was the first person to bring the
Zapruder film to national TV in 1975, on Good Night America with
Geraldo Rivera. His efforts that year proved instrumental in forcing
Congress to reopen the investigation creating the House Select
Committee on Assassinations, where Mr. Groden served as staff
photographic consultant for three years. Mr. Groden was also senior
program consultant to the 1988 landmark British documentary
mini-series The Men Who Killed Kennedy.
2011-04-17 Lamar Waldron
book Legacy Of Secrecy bought by Leonardo DiCaprio to be made
into a film starring DiCaprio
Waldron
reveals for the first time the two witnesses in the Secret Service
car directly behind JFK's who saw the shots from the knoll. The
witnesses? Two of JFK's top aides Dave Powers and Kenny O'Donnell.
Why the silence and cover up? Not a Coup d'état but fear of starting
WWIII. Essential to remember that the Cuban Missile Crisis had taken
place only a year before, when we came "that close" to nuclear
holocaust. He also goes into detail how the mafia instigated the
assassination to stop Bobby's onslaught of Jimmy Hoffa, The
Teamsters and organized crime and reveals two thwarted previous
attempts also in November 1963. Electric.
Bay of Pigs
Mafia Dons Sam Giancana, Johnny
Roselli, Santos Traficante, Carlos Marcello
Marylyn Monroe, Frank Sinatra,
Judy Campbell
Abraham Bolden 1st Afro-American
secret Service Agent
VP Johnson, E. Howard Hunt,
Nixon, Bernard Barker, David Morales
Hoover, The FBI, CIA et al
the plot and why the cover up
2011-04-10 The Kennedys: Dr. Robert McClelland Meet the
Emergency Room Surgeon who worked on JFK
Imagine
if we had the chance to speak with the doctor who worked on
President Abraham Lincoln after he was fatally wounded? What a
priceless treasure for all time that would be. Tonight we have that
opportunity. Meet Dr. Robert McClelland, the Dallas Parkland
Hospital emergency room surgeon who worked on JFK moments after he
was shot! It has been 48 years since the young president, husband to
Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy and father of two: John Jr. and Caroline,
was gunned down in broad daylight at high noon on the streets of
Dallas. The world has a filmed record of the assassination called
the Zupruder Film that most everyone has seen. But what did the 1st
person witnesses see?
Dr McClelland takes us back
in time directly into Trauma Room One in Parkland Hospital, just
minutes after the shots rang out in Dealey Plaza. When Kennedy
arrived he was still alive, the back of his skull was gone but there
was a heartbeat and he was struggling to breath. Through Dr.
McClelland’s eyes he takes us directly beside the head of the
fatally wounded President of the United States John Kennedy as he
lay dying on an emergency room gurney.
Dr. McClelland has been
called upon to testify to the American government’s Warren
Commission in 1964, the USHouse select
Commission on Assassinations 1978 (who’s conclusion found a
conspiracy in the murder of JFK) and on a PBS Front Line exposé on
the assassination. Over the years, Dr. McClelland has come to
believe that what the Warren Commission presented was a lie and
offers his own perspective and theory as to what took place that day
November 22, 1963.
Alarmingly, the wounds on
JFK that Dr. McClelland witnessed are not the same as the official
autopsy photos.
Dr. McClelland
also worked on Lee Harvey Oswald two days later and tells us that
experience struggling to recitate the purported murder of JFK,
moments after a known Mafioso by the name of Jack Ruby shot Oswald.
Tonight the true story of
Dr. Robert McClelland emergency room surgeon who was in Trauma room
one that day, pulling out all the stops to resuscitate and to try
and save the life of that young president John F. Kennedy. Tonight
we present that true life testament by none other than Dr. Robert
McClelland himself. Living history tonight folks. Folks it doesn't
get any more real than this.
2010-04-05 Hon Peter Milliken Canadian Speaker of The House
The Speaker of the House of Commons is the representative of
the House in its powers and proceedings, and my functions fall
into three categories. First, I preside over the debates of the
House of Commons and ensure the observance of all rules for
preserving order in its proceedings. Second, I am the Chair of
the Board of Internal Economy (BOIE), which manages the budget
and administration of the House of Commons, and those areas of
Parliament Hill which are under the jurisdiction of the House.
Third, I am the spokesperson or representative of the House in
its relations with the Crown, the Senate and other authorities
and persons outside Parliament.
In terms of ranking, the Official Order of Precedence lists
the Speaker of the House of Commons as being in 7th place,
immediately after the Governor General, the Prime Minister of
Canada, the Chief Justice of Canada, former Governors General
and Prime Ministers and the Speaker of the Senate. Distilled to
its essence, the main function of the Speaker is as the servant
of the House. The Presiding Officer is, however, entitled on all
occasions to be treated with the greatest attention and respect
by the individual members because the office embodies the power,
dignity and honour of the House itself.
The office of Speaker of the House of Commons is the
personification of authority and impartiality. The Mace, symbol
of the authority of the House, is carried in front of the
Speaker by the Sergeant-at-Arms and is placed upon the table
when the Speaker is in the Chair. The Speaker calls upon Members
to speak; when they do, their words must be directed to the
Speaker. When she or he rises to preserve (or restore) order or
to give a ruling the Speaker must be heard in silence. Members
must remain seated when the Speaker is standing. Reflections
upon the character or actions of the Speaker cannot be
criticised incidentally in debate or upon any form of proceeding
except by way of a substantive motion. The House of Commons must
trust in the impartiality of the Speaker, or it cannot function.
Many conventions exist which are there to guarantee not only the
impartiality but also the general perception of the impartiality
of the Speaker. The Speaker takes no part in debate in the
House, and votes only if there is a tie in the voting. In this
case, parliamentary convention dictates that the Speaker must
vote to continue consideration of an issue. For example, were I
to vote at Second Reading, debate on approval in principle of
the bill, I might vote in favour. If, however, I were to have to
vote on Third Reading, the final stage of the legislative
process in the House of Commons, I would vote against the bill,
since convention prevents the Speaker from voting to change
existing law. Accordingly, regardless of how I would like to
vote, my duties require me to follow the precedents that have
been set for the Speaker of the House.
In order to ensure complete impartiality, the Speaker usually
renounces all connections with any parliamentary party. The
Speaker does not attend any party caucus nor take part in any
outside partisan political activity. When an MP is elected
Speaker, essentially he or she no longer belongs to any party.
It is no longer their function to support the government, or any
of the opposition parties. The Speaker’s allegiance is solely to
the House of Commons and to the 300 other members of Parliament
who are there.
As well as presiding over the House proceedings, the Speaker
oversees the accommodation and services in that part of the
Parliament Buildings and grounds occupied by the House of
Commons. The Speaker, as Chairman and with the other Members of
the Board of Internal economy (the governing body of the House
of Commons), approves all budgetary estimates for the coming
fiscal year.
2010-04-05 Ross King Defiant Spirits the Modernist Revolution of the
Group of Seven
A
Governor General’s Award–winning author recounts the turbulent years
during which a group of young Canadian painters went from obscurity
to international renown.
Beginning in 1912, Defiant Spirits traces the artistic
development of Tom Thomson and the future members of the Group of
Seven, Franklin Carmichael, Lawren Harris, A. Y. Jackson, Franz
Johnston, Arthur Lismer, J. E. H. MacDonald, and Frederick Varley,
over a dozen years in Canadian history. Working in an eclectic and
sometimes controversial blend of modernist styles, they produced
what an English critic celebrated in the 1920s as the “most vital
group of paintings” of the 20th century. Inspired by Cézanne, Van
Gogh and other modernist artists, they tried to interpret the
Ontario landscape in light of the strategies of the international
avant-garde. Based after 1914 in the purpose-built Studio Building
for Canadian Art, the young artists embarked on what Lawren Harris
called “an all-engrossing adventure”: travelling north into the
anadian Shield and forging a style of painting appropriate to what
they regarded as the unique features of Canada’s northern landscape.
Sumptuously illustrated, rigorously researched and drawn from
archival documents and letters, Defiant Spirits constitutes
a “group biography,” reconstructing the men’s aspirations,
frustrations and achievements. It details not only the lives of Tom
Thomson and the members of the Group of Seven but also the political
and social history of Canada during a time when art exhibitions were
venues for debates about Canadian national identity and cultural
worth.
2011-03-30 Senator Hugh Segal chief of staff Prime
Minister Brian Mulroney
A provocative case for the special
balance and uniquely Canadian nature of the Tory imperative
throughout our history
In a manner that reflects his long-time
academic and practitioner’s association with conservative
politics and ideas in Canada, Hugh Segal traces the deep
historical roots of Canadian conservatism and the themes that
unite its pre- and post-confederation reality with today’s
challenges and issues. The Right Balance connects the
historical roots and exclusive intellectual principles of
Canadian conservatism to the fundamental idea of Canada with a
new and insightful perspective.
Provocative and timely, this book puts the
present Stephen Harper–led Conservatives into a dynamic
historical context and gives readers fresh insights into how
Canadian Conservatism is different and why, providing depth and
texture to today’s headlines. The Right Balance will
appeal to both adults and students who are interested in the
economics, ideas and DNA of our present political debates.
2011-03-30 Efraim Zuroff Bringing Nazis to
Justice
As
director of the Simon Wiesenthal Center's Jerusalem office,
American-born Israeli historian
Efraim
Zuroff coordinates the center's worldwide effort to locate Nazi war
criminals and bring them to justice. In a career spanning 28 years
he has not only tracked down those who helped perpetrate the
Holocaust, but also convinced often-hesitant governments to
prosecute them.
In 2002 Zuroff helped launch Operation Last
Chance, which offers financial rewards in exchange for information
leading to the identification and prosecution of war criminals
living—often openly—in Europe, the Balkans, and South America. He
also writes the center's annual status report, which lists the most
wanted Nazis still at large and grades individual nations on their
willingness and determination to prosecute identified war criminals.
2011-03-23 Alex Traiman
Iranium: A documentary so explosive that the Iranian embassy in
Ottawa made threats if it was screened in Canada.
Narrated by Academy Award Nominee and Emmy Award
Winning Iranian actress, Shohreh Aghdashloo, the 60-minute film uses
rare footage from Iran and interviews with 25 politicians, Iranian
dissidents, and leading experts on Middle East policy, terrorism,
and nuclear proliferation.
"We encourage concerned citizens around the
world to view this timely film and see firsthand the statements of
Iranian leaders on their intentions for America and the
international community," said Alex Traiman, director of IRANIUM.
2011-03-23 Sayeh Hassan
Pro Democracy Movement inside Iran
Sayeh Hassan is a Toronto based
Criminal Defense Lawyer with Walter Fox and Associates. Ms.
Hassan is an Iranian pro-democracy activist who has been
involved with this movement for the past eight years. She is
also the author of the shiro-khorshid-forever blog which focuses
on human rights and the pro-democracy movement in Iran. Through
her human rights work she stays in close contact with dissidents
inside Iran as well retains contact with numerous Iran based
human rights organizations. Her writings often focus on the
plight of ethnic and religious minorities in Iran, with a
particular interest in the persecution of the Kurdish and Baha'i
communities. Ms. Hassan writes regularly for online publications
such as Canada Free Press, Persian Journal and the Kurdish
Herald. She can be contacted at sayehhassan@gmail.com
Gil
Troy is Professor of History at McGill University in Montreal, and a
Visiting Scholar affiliated with the Bipartisan Policy Center in
Washington.
His latest book, "The Reagan Revolution: A Very Short Introduction"
was published last fall by Oxford University Press, as was the book
he co-edited with Vincent Cannato "Living in the Eighties." This
fall, Facts on File is planning on publishing the revised and
updated edition he edited of the multi-volume classic "History of
Presidential Elections" originally edited by Arthur M. Schlesinger,
Jr., and Fred Israel while Sterling Publishing Company of Barnes &
Noble will release a new illustrated edition of "The Reagan
Revolution: A Brief Insight" in January, 2011.
Troy's book
Leading from the Center: Why Moderates Make the Best Presidents
was published in June, 2008 by Basic Books, shortly after the
University Press of Kansas released the paperback edition of his
book
Hillary Rodham Clinton: Polarizing First Lady, having
been published in hard cover in 2006. Troy is the author of
Morning in America: How Ronald Reagan Invented the 1980s,
published in 2005 by Princeton University Press and released in
paperback in 2007. It has been called a "masterly study of Ronald
Reagan's presidency - the best single book we have on his
administration to date." His two other works in American history
were
Mr. and Mrs. President: From the Trumans to the Clintons
(2000) - first published by The Free Press as Affairs of State:
The Rise and Rejection of the Presidential Couple Since World War II
and See How They Ran: The Changing Role of the Presidential
Candidate, originally published by the Free Press in 1991, then
released in an updated paperback edition by Harvard University Press
in 1997.
Troy is also the author of Why I Am a Zionist: Israel, Jewish
Identity and the Challenges of Today. The book has been hailed
as a "must read," and the most persuasive presentation of the
Zionist case "in decades." It has been released in a third expanded
and updated edition, having sold over 25,000 copies.
Troy is a native of Queens, New York. He received his bachelor's,
master's and doctoral degrees from Harvard University. After
receiving his Ph. D in History in 1988, he taught History and
Literature at Harvard for two years. In September 1990, Troy became
an assistant professor of history at McGill University. In 1995,
Troy was promoted to Associate Professor and granted tenure. From
1997 to 1998 he served as chairman of McGill's history department.
In March, 1999 he was promoted to Full Professor. Maclean's magazine
has repeatedly labeled him one of McGill's "Popular Profs" and the
History News Network designated him one of its first 12
"Top Young
Historians". He has appeared on most major Canadian and
American television networks and has been widely published and
quoted in the media.
Kay
is a graduate of the University of Toronto where she earned an
undergraduate degree in English literature. She received a Master of
Arts from McGill University and subsequently taught literature at
Concordia University and several CEGEPs. Beginning her journalism
career as a book reviewer, Kay branched out into writing op/eds for
the Post before becoming a columnist in 2003. She also was a
contributor and board member of the revived Cité Libre in the 1990s.
In 2006 she was criticized for a series of articles accusing Quebec
politicians of supporting Hezbollah during the 2006 Israel-Lebanon
conflict. In 2007, the Quebec Press Council released a decision
condemning Kay for "undue provocation" and "generalizations suitable
to perpetuate prejudices". In 2007, she wrote a column titled "Not
in my backyard, either" in which she criticized Hasidic Jews for not
integrating into the neighbourhoods in which they live and for being
"self-segregating" and "cult-like". In 2008, she wrote another
column criticizing Hasids in the Toronto area. She was accused of
hating Jews as a result. her own Jewishness notwithstanding. She is
the mother of National Post Managing Editor Jonathan Kay.
International Women's Day
I have never been one much
for celebrating special days for this or for that. I have never
given much merit to credibility solely based on a person's colour,
religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation or for that
matter gender. For me there is now and has only ever been one race:
Human (I have also never given much credence to the rat race
either).
However, I am a profound
believer in role models. Role models show us a path through the
woods. They also show us the possibilities of blazing our own
trails. On today's show we celebrate two such role models. Not just
for young girls and women but for all of us.
Mukhtar Mai is a survivor of
"honour rape". This term is perhaps the most perverse of all
oxymoron's. She lives in the Southern region of Punjab Province,
Pakistan, where tribal mentality still permeates and some of the
most barbaric acts of violence towards women still occur. Mukhtar
Mai took that barbaric act against her and declared war on its
inception. But this is a war waged by the most strategic of all the
weapons known to mankind: education. She began a school for girls. A
school not only to educate young girls but by extension their
parents as well. Parents who still believe that it is just and right
for girls 12 years old to marry. Perhaps a new beginning for all is
being birthed. Her resources are meager and she needs help. I have
placed a link on the web site to do just that and
make a
donation.
Erin Brockvich. So
stunningly beautiful that Julie Roberts played her in the Hollywood
feature film about her life aptly titled: "Erin Brockovich".
Erin has been plagued and
suffers from being drop dead gorgeous, blonde and dyslexia. All this
has meant that in her past she had been stereotyped as being
"blonde". As you will see when you listen to her, she is nothing
short of brilliant, articulate and passionate. It is this later
description upon hearing the show that will have you up and dancing
in the clouds. Talk about a motivating, no nonsense straight to the
point, inspiring, get your engines going, person. Get ready to be
rocked folks by the one and only Erin Brockovich.
Both of today's guests have
been up close and personal with adversity and have turned that
negative into a positive not only for themselves but the rest of the
human race as well. Lessons learned today. Nice to be in the same
race, isn't it? Now this is a day to celebrate!
Promoting Women's Rights in Pakistan: Ending Oppression
Through Education
Established in 2003, Mukhtar Mai Women’s Organization (MMWO) is
lead by Mukhtar Mai, internationally known for her struggle for
the protection and promotion of women’s rights. Mukhtar Mai
Women's Organization is the champion defender of women's rights
and education in the Southern region of Punjab Province,
Pakistan, a region with some of the world's worst examples of
women’s rights violations, such as rape, gang rape, domestic
violence, honour killing, vani (exchange of women in settling
the disputes), and child marriages. Responding to the alarming
rate of violence against women and girls in the region, combined
with the failure of the state in providing relief and shelter to
the destitute and battered women, Mukhtar Mai Women Welfare
Organization has become a beacon hope, empowering women with its
mantra of ending oppression through education. Apart from
advocacy and awareness campaigns, MMWO provides legal & para aid
and shelter to approximately 500 survivors of violence annually
through Mukhtar Mai Women’s Resource Centre & Shelter
Home. Mukhtar Mai Girls Model School provides free education to
hundreds of girls in the remote and deprived areas of Southern
region of Punjab province of Pakistan.
Say the name Erin Brockovich and you think, strong, tough,
stubborn and sexy. Erin is all that and definitely more. She is a
modern-day “David” who loves a good brawl with today’s “Goliaths”.
She thrives on being the voice for those who don’t know how to yell.
She is a rebel. She is a fighter. She is a mother. She is a woman.
She is you and me.
It’s been 10 years since Julia Roberts starred
in the Oscar-winning, tour de force, “Erin Brockovich”.
The film helped turned an unknown legal researcher into a 20th
century icon. Since then, Erin hasn’t been resting on her laurels… she
continues to fight hard and win big!
Charles
Evers. A no nonsense real life history
lesson from someone who was there beside his brother Medgar,Bobbyand Dr. King. What these men
sacrificed to have an African American in the White House. Where the
Black community has failed them and themselves because of rage and
hate. This is not bland rhetoric from another text book from
academia. This is the real deal. It simply does not get any more
real than this. Charles Evers:
·on the 1963 murder of his
younger brother Medgar
·on being the head of the
NAACP in Mississippi in the 60s
·on being with Bobby when
he was murdered
·on being attacked side by
side with Dr. King in a freedom march
·on being a "Negro" in the
US Army and the South in the 30s, 40s, 50s 60s
·on the klan
·on changing Bobby while
in Mississippi by introducing him to barbaric poverty
·on being 88 years young
·on Canada
·on his dear friend Ted
Sorensen
·on the problems plaguing
21st century Black communities
·on taking responsibility
for one's actions
·on President Barack Obama
·on the ultimate
sacrifices of his brother and Bobby
Abraham Bolden
- Abraham Bolden was the 1st African American Secret Service Agent
on White House detail, handpicked by President Kennedy himself.
Bolden was not on duty that fateful day in Dallas and that haunts
him to this day. He fullybelievesthat had he only been there, that somehow, someway, he would
have found away to keep the president alive, even if that meant
taking that fatal bullet himself. Bolden was subsequently set up by
the Secret service to silence his whistle blowing damning
accusations about drunk agents that day in Dallas, accusations that
were validated shortly thereafter.
Synopsis: Tonight living
history. Fate & destiny took its turn throughout this story,
including where he first met and was introduced to JFK. Bolden, a
“Negro” agent living in Chicago in 1962, was assigned the derogatory
task of guarding the toilet; out of sight, out of mind. Too much
coffee at breakfast brought JFK bounding down the stairs, entourage
in tow, until he saw Bolden. He stopped mid-stride, spoke with
Bolden for several minutes and then asked him if he would serve on
his protective detail. Of course he would; “see you next week in
Washington” was the response by the young president.
There are heart wrenching
and riveting personal stories about how Bolden was willing to lay
his life down not only for the president but for the first lady
Jacqueline Kennedy and Caroline as he recounts a story when on duty
protecting them. Bolden was highly liked by Kennedy who took a
shining to him and introduced him to a who’s who of White House
movers & shakers including his brother Bobby who offered him a job
as an ambassador.
Appallingly, Bolden also
witnessed fellow agents pick up women to have sex with while on
duty, supposedly protecting the president. On many occasions, there
were also agents on duty too drunk to walk, let alone be called upon
in an emergency. Indeed his fears were realized when it was
discovered the Secret Service agents on Kennedy’s trip to Dallas
that fateful day were all found to have been boozing all night long
at a strip club until 7 am, some never having been to bed at all.
Bolden was also subjected to rampant racism from his fellow Secret
Service agents who did not like the fact he was working alongside
them. They put a noose above his desk, called him “Nigger” to his
face, and set him up in an effort to silence Bolden’s whistle
blowing, damning statements about the president’s lack of
professional Secret Service protection and drunken agents.
To this day, Bolden is
driven to tell the truth about those events that so devastated a
nation and the truth about his own role to bring about justice to
the President he so desperately tried to save and loyally served.
The truth will set you free.
Below is the website to a petition directed to the Honorable
President Barack H. Obama asking that he take executive
action in regards to my unlawful conviction. I would deeply
appreciate it if you would sign the petition and forward it
to others on your email lists.
Abraham W. Bolden, Sr.
7632 South Sangamon Street
Chicago, Illinois 60620
Email:a.bolden@sbcglobal.net
Telephone: 1-773-488-4822
Fax: 1-773-409-0660
Visit website at:www.echofromdealeyplaza.net
Tom
Segev, who writes a weekly column in Ha’aretz, Israel’s
leading daily newspaper, is the author of The Seventh Million:
The Israelis and the Holocaust and other pathbreaking books,
including One Palestine, Complete, which was named one of the
ten best books of 2000 by the New York Times Book Review. He
lives in Jerusalem.
This first fully documented biography of Simon Wiesenthal, the
legendary Nazi hunter, is also a brilliant character study of a man
whose life was part invention but wholly dedicated to ensuring both
that the Nazis be held responsible for their crimes and that the
destruction of European Jewry never be forgotten.
Like most Jews in Eastern Europe on the eve of Hitler’s invasion of
Poland, twenty-four-year-old Simon Wiesenthal did not grasp the
nature of the Nazi threat. But six years later, when a skeletal
Wiesenthal was liberated from the concentration camp at Mauthausen,
he fully fathomed the crimes of the Nazis. Within days he had
assembled a list of nearly 150 Nazi war criminals, the first of
dozens of such lists he would make over a lifetime as a Nazi hunter.
A hero in the eyes of many, Wiesenthal was also attacked for his
unrelenting pursuit of the past, when others preferred to forget.
For this new biography, rich in newsworthy revelations, historian
and journalist Tom Segev has obtained access to Wiesenthal’s private
papers and to sixteen archives, including records of the U.S.,
Israeli, Polish, and East German secret services. Segev is able to
reveal the intriguing secrets of Wiesenthal’s life, including his
stunning role in the capture of Adolf Eichmann, his relationship
with Israel’s Mossad, his controversial investigative techniques,
his unlikely friendships with Kurt Waldheim and Albert Speer, and
the nature of his rivalry with Elie Wiesel.
Segev’s challenge in writing this biography was Wiesenthal’s own
complicated relationship to truth. Wiesenthal told many versions of
his life, his suffering in the camps, and his involvement with the
arrest of individual Nazis. Segev shows that in order to gain the
information he sought and twist the arms of reluctant government
figures, Wiesenthal needed to seem more influential than he really
was.
For two generations of Americans, Simon Wiesenthal was a Jewish
superhero—depicted on film by Ben Kingsley and Laurence Olivier—and
the muse for a Frederick Forsyth thriller. Now Segev demonstrates
that the truth of Wiesenthal’s existence is as compelling as the
fiction. Simon Wiesenthal is an unforgettable life of one of
the great men of the twentieth century.
2011-02-02 Valerie Fortney
True story of Capt.
Nichola Goddard 1st combat qualified female Canadian soldier to die in combat
This
afternoon the book: "Sunray, the death and life of Captain Nichola
Godard" written by award winning journalist Valerie Fortney. This
afternoon we will be looking at this young woman
why she went to Afghanistan to fight. "Sunray tells the story of a
remarkable 21st-century soldier. It is an intriguing, heartbreaking,
and ultimately inspiring look at the decision to serve, and at the
costs."
Many folks firmly believe we
shouldn't be in Afghanistan, but when does a country stand together
and stand up and say: No, what's happening to people in Afghanistan
is no longer tolerable. Are Afghani women any less human beings than
Canadian women? Do we simply turn a blind eye and allow little girls
to be murdered and have acid thrown in their faces all for daring to
have the audacity to desire an education? And despite the rants of
some who cry colonialism, we certainly aren't there for its
resources. It's certainly not oil. Canada has the 2nd largest oil
reserves in the world. Is there anything else we derive from
Afghanistan? Well...we know Afghanistan produces 90% of the globe's
opium; the poppy; heroin. Certainly that is not our priority to
balance trade deficits. So why are we there?
Perhaps this afternoon we
will gain a measure of insight as to why captain Nichola
Godard chose to leave the comfort of Canada to put herself in harm's
way in Afghanistan. Tragically Nichola
became the first combat qualified female Canadian soldier to die in
combat. Captain Nichola Godard was a woman
of idealism. She was a leader. Above all she was a human being who
wanted something better for her fellow human beings
inhabiting this small
planet.
Hi Brent-
The media has been getting it wrong for years-Nichola was not
the first Cdn female soldier to die in combat. Lots of female
soldiers have been caught up in combat and killed. As the
general made responsible in 1997 for introducing women into the
combat arms of the CF(Infantry, Armour, Artillery, Combat
engineerrs, Pilots, Surface and sub-service Navy) I find such
discription of Nicola's sacrifice inadequate. She was the first
combat qualified Canadian female soldier to die in combat. She
was the Artillery FOO(Forward Operating Observer/Officer) for
her battle group responsible for calling in and adjusting
artillery fire in support of her commander's mission-and from
what I understand from her commander one of the best FOOs in the
theater.
All the best, Lew MacKenzie
2011-01-26 The Governor General of Canada David Johnston
Canada. Canada is the best country in the
world bar none. Canada. I’ve got passion for this country; its
people; what it stands for in the world. When I travelled to
Rideau Hall a few weeks ago to interview our new Governor
General, David Johnston, I saw a spark in David Johnston’s eyes,
a spark that I love to see when people talk about this country.
It is a spark of passion. Pure love and passion for this
country, for its greatness, for its people and its ideals. And
that’s what Canada stands for: idealism. That’s why people come
from all around the world to bring the best parts of their
backgrounds and help build this country and become part of it.
And that’s what I love about Canada. By the way folks, for you
film trivia buffs, you’re going to want to listen to the last
part of the interview with Governor General David Johnston, you
are going to be amazed at what integral part he played in one of
Hollywood’s biggest movies ever released.
In the second part of the show, I went down
to New York City and interviewed Jody Williams. Jody Williams
won the Nobel Peace Prize, yup, she’s a heavy hitter folks, for
banning landmines. There’s a huge Canadian connection in there
with Canada’s own the Right Honourable Lloyd Axeworthy.
David Johnston began his professional career as an assistant
professor in the Faculty of Law at Queen’s University in 1966,
moving to the Law Faculty at the University of Toronto in 1968. He
became dean of the Faculty of Law at the University of Western
Ontario in 1974. In 1979, he was named principal and vice-chancellor
of McGill University, and in July 1994, he returned to the McGill
Faculty of Law as a full-time professor. In June 1999, he became the
fifth president of the University of Waterloo.
Mr. Johnston has served on many provincial and federal task
forces and committees. He has also served on the boards of a number
of companies, including Arise, CGI, Fairfax, and Masco. He was
president of the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada
and of the Conférence des recteurs et des principaux des universités
du Québec. He was the founding chair of the National Round Table on
the Environment and the Economy, chaired the federal government’s
Information Highway Advisory Council, and served as the first
non-American chair of the Board of Overseers at Harvard University.
He is the author or co-author of two dozen books, holds honorary
doctorates from over a dozen universities, and has been awarded the
Order of Canada (Companion).
Mr. Johnston holds an LLB from Queen’s University (1966), an LLB
from the University of Cambridge (1965), and an AB from Harvard
University (1963). While at Harvard, he was twice selected for the
All-American hockey team and is a member of Harvard’s Athletic Hall
of Fame. His academic specializations include securities regulation,
information technology and corporate law.
He was born in Sudbury, Ontario, and is married to Sharon
Johnston. They have five adult daughters and seven grandchildren.
Sworn in on October 1, 2010, His Excellency the Right Honourable
David Johnston is the 28th governor general since Confederation.
2011-01-19 Gabriel Wilensky The Church & The Holocaust
I do allot of shows in this area. Why? it is because the
Holocaust represents the worst man has ever been to man. The
systematic industrialized extermination of human beings had never
been seen before; much less by a so called western civilization as
Germany. Companies bid on providing the furnaces for the disposal of
bodies in the millions. Canada faired badly by having an immigration
policy towards Jews fleeing extermination by boasting "none is too
many". How about the Church? Did it fair better? My guest today
Gabriel Wilensky has done profound research with the attempt to
answer that question. And why? Why today should we even bother
to answer that question? Because it is only by understanding the
origins of The Holocaust can we ever hope to slay the beast from
ever raising its ugly head again. Be warned, it is rising once again
right now.
Antisemitism is on the rise again. Never since the end of the
Holocaust have there been so many antisemitic incidents worldwide.
The world suffers from amnesia and disregarding the lessons from the
past looks the other way. Film director Mel Gibson releases
The Passion of the Christ, a passion
play watched by more people than all the previous passion play
productions put together, and equally if not more damning of the
Jewish people. A senior Vatican cardinal compares the Gaza Strip
with a big concentration camp. A Swedish newspaper updates the old
Christian Ritual Murder canard and accuses the Israeli Defense
Forces—as a proxy for “The Jew”— of killing young Palestinians to
harvest their organs. Holocaust denial has become more common, and
no amount of lawsuits and debunking seem to make it disappear. Even
a shunned, excommunicated Catholic bishop who Pope Benedict XVI
brought back into the Catholic fold continues to openly deny the
extent of the Holocaust. A pope who believes Pope Pius XII “spared
no effort in intervening in their [the Jews’] favour either directly
or through instructions given to other individuals or to
institutions of the Catholic Church” during the war. And this is the
same pope who seems to be interested in eroding the progress made by
the Second Vatican Council and reverting to a more traditional
version of Catholicism, a version that taught for almost two
millennia that Jews were Christ-killers and the enemies of
Christianity. Six Million Crucifixions provides an
overview of the historical background of key events in the history
of antisemitism spanning the time between the death of Jesus up to
the end of the Holocaust and beyond. The second part of the book
focuses on various specific aspects of Christian Antisemitism,
followed by the role of the Catholic and Protestant Churches during
the Nazi era and its aftermath. The fourth part provides an overview
of the criminal activities that individual clergy as well as the
Churches as such may be guilty of and makes a legal study of what a
potential indictment may have looked like.
Clearly, most if not all the people involved in the crimes discussed
in Six Million Crucifixions are now
dead so an indictment and trial as discussed in the book could not
happen today. This fact only makes the injustice even worse, as the
clergy who were part of the crimes committed back then got away with
impunity. What we are seeing now are the consequences of what
happens when crimes go unpunished and the record is not properly
established
The objective of this book is to present the historical background
to explain how the Holocaust could have happened, and raise
awareness of where antisemitism comes from and why it has not
disappeared yet. Ultimately, it is up to courageous and good-hearted
Christians to take a hard look at the past of their religion—as
unsavory as it may be—and take what will surely be painful measures
to redress the wrongs from the past.
Canadian and British airmen engaged in fierce and deadly battles
in the skies over Europe during the Second World War. Those who
survived often had to overcome incredible obstacles to do so --
dodging bullets and German troops, escaping from burning planes and
enduring forced marches if they became prisoners. Amazing Airmen
tells some of these stories -- tales that are so amazing they sound
like fiction.
In one story, a tail gunner from Montreal survived despite being
unconscious when blown out of his bomber. Another story describes
how the crew of a navigator from Ottawa used chewing gum to fill
holes in their aircraft. And another tells how a pilot from Northern
Ontario parachuted out of his plane and became the target of a
German machine-gunner, but within hours 120 Germans surrendered to
him.
These painstakingly researched stories will enable you to feel
what now-aging veterans endured when they were young men in the air
war against Nazi Germany.
2011-01-05 Lt. General Roméo Dallaire
"The ultimate focus of the rest of my life is to eradicate the
use of child soldiers and to eliminate even the thought of the use
of children as instruments of war." —Roméo Dallaire
In conflicts around the world, there is an increasingly popular
weapon system that requires negligible technology, is simple to
sustain, has unlimited versatility and incredible capacity for both
loyalty and barbarism. In fact, there is no more complete end-to-end
weapon system in the inventory of war-machines. What are these
cheap, renewable, plentiful, sophisticated and expendable weapons?
Children.
Roméo
Dallaire was first confronted with child soldiers in unnamed
villages on the tops of the thousand hills of Rwanda during the
genocide of 1994. The dilemma of the adult soldier who faced them is
beautifully expressed in his book's title: when children are
shooting at you, they are soldiers, but as soon as they are wounded
or killed they are children once again.
Believing that not one of us should tolerate a child being used in
this fashion, Dallaire has made it his mission to end the use of
child soldiers. In this book, he provides an intellectually daring
and enlightening introduction to the child soldier phenomenon, as
well as inspiring and concrete solutions to eradicate it
2010-11-17 Lt. Col. Robert Darling USMC(ret) 9/11 Inside The
President's Bunker
Sept. 11, 2001. Like Pearl harbour and the Kennedy assassination
before it, if you were alive that day you remember where you were.
Our guest today remembers where he was as well. He was at the centre
of the US command control in a sealed bunker below the White House.
Beside sat Secretary of State Dr. Condoleezza Rice and directly
behind him stood Vice President Dick Cheney.
Lt. Col. Darling takes us step by step, blow by blow throughout
all the shattering events that unfolded that day. The sheer volume
of information flooding the bunker; how they discerned what was a
real threat and had to be dealt with immediately; the real world
order to scramble two F-15s to down Flight 93 heading on a collision
course with the White House and the leaders of the free world.
This is a story that non of us have had access to before. This is
real history by a man in a command seat on the most horrible day in
recent history. This is living history; it doesn't get anymore real
than this.
Canada
must embrace all of us together, for we are all Canada and if
one of us is missing then we are all lost.
guest: Prime Minister Paul
Martin: The PMO; same sex marriage, Aboriginal rights, The
Charter & Brownies
Canada is blessed with an abundance of natural resources, water,
agriculture, minerals, forestry, talk show hosts (well, maybe
not that last one. We want for nothing. Truly. But we almost
always overlook our most important resource and that is us: the
Canadian people. Each person that makes up this mosaic we call
Canada offers a uniqueness that no one else can bring to the
table. But when there are those amongst who do not have the same
rights as us, we all suffer and Canada is less than it could be.
Canada should not be a patch work or quilt of opportunities only
for some and not others; purple people over here, short chunky
guys over there (guess what line up I'd be in?), those that wear
a Hijab way over there. That's nuts. One Canada; One People; One
law.
Same sex marriage. Who the hell are we or anyone to tell someone
who to love. Who dares to proclaim that right amongst us. Yet
this was the case, embarrassingly, for Canada up until July 20,
2005. Finally, this issue was put to bed and people were free to
fall in love with whomever they wanted and have the same
benefits and respect accorded to their neighbours.
But this just didn't happen with the wave of a wand. It took a
man with the vision of great statesmen. Like John Kennedy,
Robert Kennedy and Dr. King before him, all whom had championed
civil rights for African Americans in the sixties, Canada's own
Prime Minister Paul Martin rose and championed this cause. This
wasn't a cause that was going to win him any favours, trust me.
As a world leader it would challenge his Catholicism from the
Vatican, those around the globe who declare homosexuality an
abomination, those who believe the only way to rid the world of
this abomination was through the punishment of death (Iran and
so many other thugocricies and Islamic theocracies as well). So
why did he risk it when he could have just sat back and coasted
during his Prime Ministership? He did it because in that true
Canadian fashion: it was simply the right thing to do. Prime
Minister Paul Martin was the right man at the right time with
the right cause. Today Canada and indeed the world is a better
place because of his fortitude. Canada again displayed its
leadership role amongst the nations. Now they to look to us to
see how people can live together, but not only live to together,
prosper and laugh as one.
There are times in all our lives when standing up against the
tide and doing the right thing taxes every fiber of our makeup.
But stand we must. For even a single voice of truth from legions
of naysayers, it still remains the truth. And the truth will
indeed set us free.
Join me as we go through those tumultuous times with Prime
Minister Paul Martin. Living history in his own words.
2010-10-27 Mark Sobel Hollywood Director,
Producer, Writer.
What
do Martin Sheen, James Earl Jones, Sarah Jessica Parker, Sam
Waterston, Quantum Leap, The Outer Limits, Lois &Clark and so many,
many more Hollywood legends and stars all hold in common? Canadian
born director Mark Sobel.
On today's show Mark will give us behind the
scenes access to the scoop behind the actors and shows. All the
stuff that has never made the light of day...until now that is.
Want to know what it was to direct Sarah Jessica
Parker and her attitude towards her craft? Want to know what it was
like being in Martin Sheen's living room screening the first West
Wing and what petrified him? How about how Mark's inventiveness
created a special effect for Quantum Leap when there was no budget
left for computer generated graphics? Get ready to go behind the
facade and have an insider's peek at what transpires behind the
scenes everyday at work in Hollywood.
A
Line In The Sand. An impassioned insider’s view of the Canadian
soldier’s war in Afghanistan and why it matters.
A Line in the Sand takes up where the bestselling
FOB Doc left
off—this time, with a focus on the Canadian soldier in
Afghanistan. What Captain Wiss saw in Afghanistan during his
first tour there in 2007–08 convinced him that this conflict was
a rare example of a moral war. When the Canadian Forces asked
him to return to the combat area, he agreed. Once again, he kept
a diary. This time, he wrote something completely different.
The conflict in Afghanistan continues to command the nation’s
attention. Written in an accessible and engaging style, A
Line in the Sand’s goal is to ensure that the efforts,
sacrifices and achievements of those Canadians who served with
such distinction are never forgotten. Illustrated with over 50
colour photographs, A Line in the Sand tells us about
virtually every kind of soldier fighting in Afghanistan: the
bomb technician, the woman who lugs heavy artillery shells, the
engineer, the tank driver, the combat medic, the “grunt.” We
accompany Dr. Wiss as he treats the casualties of war—Canadian,
Afghan (civilian and military) and Taliban. We follow combat
patrols through dangerous terrain. We learn about the Afghans,
from whom we are seemingly so different yet with whom we share
so much.
All profits from A Line in the Sand will be donated
to the Military Families Fund, created by former chief of the
defence staff General Rick Hillier to assist military families.
2010-10-06 Jody Williams Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
Jody Williams received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1997 for her work
to ban landmines through the International Campaign to Ban
Landmines, which shared the Peace Prize with her that year. At that
time, she became the 10th woman – and third American woman—in its
almost 100-year history to receive the Prize. Since her
protests of the Vietnam War, she has been a life-long advocate of
freedom, self-determination and human and civil rights.
Like others who’ve seen the ravages of war, she’s an outspoken
peace activist who struggles to reclaim the real meaning of peace—a
concept which goes far beyond the absence of armed conflict and is
defined by human security, not national security. Williams
believes that working for peace is not for the faint of heart.
It requires dogged persistence and a commitment to sustainable
peace, built on sustainable development, environmental jus
tice and security, and meeting the basic needs of the majority of
people on our planet.
Since January of 2006, Jody Williams has worked to achieve her peace
work through the Nobel Women’s Initiative, which she chairs. Along
with sister Laureate Dr. Shirin Ebadi of Iran, she took the lead in
establishing the Nobel Women’s Initiative, and was joined by sister
Laureates Wangari Maathai (Kenya), Rigoberta Menchu Tum (Guatemala)
and Betty Williams and Mairead Maguire (Northern Ireland). Its
mission is to use the prestige and access afforded by the Nobel
Prize to spotlight and promote efforts of women’s rights activists,
researchers and organizations working to advance peace, justice and
equality for women. By helping to advance the cause of women, the
Nobel Women’s Initiative advances all of humanity.
In February-March 2007, Williams lead a contentious High Level
Mission on Darfur for the UN’s Human Rights Council. She presented
the Mission’s hard-hitting report to the Council in March of that
year and continues to be actively involved in work related to
stopping the war in Darfur.
Since February 1998, Williams has also served as a Campaign
Ambassador for the International Campaign to Ban Landmines.
Beginning in early 1992 with two non-governmental organizations and
a staff of one – Jody Williams, she oversaw the Campaign’s growth to
over 1,300 organizations in 95 countries working to eliminate
antipersonnel landmines. In an unprecedented cooperative effort with
governments, UN bodies and the International Committee of the Red
Cross, she served as a chief strategist and spokesperson for the
ICBL as it dramatically achieved its goal of an international treaty
banning antipersonnel landmines during a diplomatic conference held
in Oslo in September 1997.
In 2003, Williams was named Distinguished Visiting Professor of
Global Justice, in the Graduate College of Social Work at the
University of Houston. In 2007 she was appointed the “Sam and Cele
Keeper Endowed Professor in Peace and Social Justice.” The Graduate
College of Social Work also houses an office of the Nobel Women’s
Initiative, which is headquartered in Ottawa, Canada. That office
offers internships with the Nobel Women’s Initiative for students of
the College.
Prior to beginning the ICBL, Williams worked for eleven years to
build public awareness about U.S. policy toward Central America.
From 1986 to 1992, she developed and directed humanitarian relief
projects as the deputy director of the Los Angeles-based Medical Aid
for El Salvador. From 1984 to 1986, she was co-coordinator of the
Nicaragua-Honduras Education Project, leading fact-finding
delegations to the region. Previously, she taught English as a
Second Language (ESL) in Mexico, the United Kingdom, and Washington,
D.C.
Williams continues to be recognized for her contributions to human
rights and global security. She is the recipient of fifteen honorary
degrees, among other recognitions. In 2004, Williams was named by
Forbes Magazine as one of the 100 most powerful women in the world
in the publication of its first such annual list.
A prolific writer, her works are too numerous to list individually.
Her articles have appeared in magazines and newspapers around the
world – including The Wall Street Journal, The International Herald
Tribune, The Boston Globe, The Toronto Globe & Mail, The Irish
Times, The LA Times, to name just a few. She has contributed various
chapters to countless books, including to works edited by Walter
Cronkite and by Eve Ensler. She co-authored an early book on the
landmine crisis. Her most recent book, Banning Landmines:
Disarmament, Citizen Diplomacy and Human Security, edited with Steve
Goose and Mary Wareham and released in March 2008, analyzes the Mine
Ban Treaty and its impact on other human security-related issues.
She is currently working on a memoir related to her work for social
justice.
2010-10-06 Sherin Ebadi Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
Shirin Ebadi, J.D., was awarded the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize for
her efforts to promote human rights, in particular, the rights of
women, children, and political prisoners in Iran. She is the first
Muslim woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize, and only the fifth
Muslim to receive a Nobel Prize in any field.
Dr. Ebadi was one of the first female judges in Iran. She served
as president of the city court of Tehran from 1975 to 1979 and was
the first Iranian woman to achieve Chief Justice status. She, along
with other women judges, was dismissed from that position after the
Islamic Revolution in February 1979. She was made a clerk in the
court she had once presided over, until she petitioned for early
retirement. After obtaining her lawyer's license in 1992, Dr. Ebadi
set up private practice. As a lawyer, Dr. Ebadi has taken on many
controversial cases defending political dissidents and as a result
has been arrested numerous times.
In addition to being an internationally-recognized advocate of human
rights, she has also established many non-governmental organizations
in Iran, including the Million Signatures Campaign, a campaign
demanding an end to legal discrimination against women in Iranian
law.
Dr. Ebadi is also a university professor and often students from
outside Iran take part in her human rights training courses. She has
published over 70 articles and 12 books dedicated to various aspects
of human rights, some of which have been published by UNICEF. Dr.
Ebadi's latest book, Iran Awakening: A Memoir of Revolution and
Hope, was published by Random House in May 2006 in English, French
and German. Its publication in 13 other languages is also underway.
In 2004, she was named by Forbes Magazine as one of the 100 most
powerful women in the world.
In January 2006, along with sister Laureate Jody Williams, Dr.
Ebadi took the lead in establishing the Nobel Women's Initiative.
Mairead Maguire was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1976 for her
extraordinary actions to end the sectarian violence in her native
Northern Ireland. She shares the award with Betty Williams.
Mairead was the aunt of the three children who died as a result
of being hit by an Irish Republican Army getaway car after its
driver was shot by a British soldier. Mairead responded to the
violence facing her family and community by organizing, with Betty
Williams, massive peace demonstrations appealing for an end to the
bloodshed.
The two organized a peace march attended by 10,000 Protestant and
Catholic women, to the graves of the Maguire children. The march
was disrupted by members of the IRA, who accused them of being
influenced by the British. The following week, 35,000 people marched
with Betty and Mairead, demanding an end to the violence in their
country.
The pair, along with journalist Ciaran McKeown, also founded
Peace People, a movement committed to building a just and peaceful
society through nonviolent social action. Mairead currently serves
as Honorary President.
In the thirty years since receiving the award, Mairead has
dedicated her life to promoting peace, both in Northern Ireland and
around the world. Her message is simple —nonviolence is the
only way to achieve a peaceful and just society. Working with
community groups throughout Northern Ireland, as well as with
political and church leaders, she has sought to promote dialogue
between the deeply divided communities of Catholics and Protestants.
A graduate of Ecumenical Studies from the Irish School of
Ecumenics, Maguire works with inter-church and inter-faith
organizations and is a member of the International Peace Council.
She is a Patron of the Methodist Theological College, and Northern
Ireland Council for Integrated Education. She is also the author of
The Vision of Peace: Faith and Hope in Northern Ireland, published
by Orbis Books.
Someone
much wiser and with far more insight than
I
once told me "don't
poke the bear, she's protecting her young". Prophetic words.
Go ahead. Try it. Poke the bear and see if anyone
takes your side. They'd probably take the side of the bear and
chastise you, rightfully so, for being stupid.
October 1962, the US invokes
a "quarantine" on the open seas to stop the completion of Cuba bound
Soviet Nuclear Missiles. Ted Sorensen writes the letter to get
Khrushchev to back down and the world breathes a sigh of relief.
Despite being "that" close to a global nuclear holocaust, there was
no way in hell the US was letting those missiles through. The crew
from the USS Joseph P. Kennedy boards a Russian freighter after she
attempted to run the gauntlet. No violence. (see Ted Sorensen's
interview below)
Fast forward May 2010 the
Gaza Peace Flotilla. Israeli troops repeatedly attempt to ask the
Peace Flotilla to head to an appropriate port to offload for
inspection, to verify there is no Iranian rockets or weapons for the
terrorist group Hamas. The world fully knows, as with the Nazis
before them, Hamas's "constitution" calls for the complete
annihilation of not only Israel but Jews in the middle east.
And so we begin our show
today. Who was really on board Mavi Marmara ship that day? Why was
there no humanitarian aid on board? Why were armed Turkish thugs on
board a "peace" flotilla? Why was there an immediate global
demonization of Israel for protecting her young once again? Why the
continued double standard? What is different about Israel than all
other countries? Jews. Still think this isn't about Anti-Semitism?
Think again.
If you poke the bear while
she's protecting her young, she is going to respond. Guaranteed.
Wouldn't you? Thanks to Tyler for the insightful quote. (my
nephew who
knows the difference between right and wrong)
2010-09-15 Stanton Friedman living history The
Father of Roswell
The
UFO crash at Roswell New Mexico 1947
The below memo is taken from Stanton Friedman’s ground
breaking book called “Crash At Corona”. It is a chilling memo and
one that comes from a source that will stun you: The Canadian
Government. Our guest, Stanton Friedman, was shown this
formerly top secret memo in 1979.This memo had
been sent and expedited to the: Controller of Telecommunications
Canadian Department of Transport . It was sent from a senior
telecommunications officer one Mr. Wilbert B. Smith, who at the time
was working on the effects geomagnetism.
“I was able to make
discreet inquiries through the Canadian Embassy staff in Washington
who were able to obtain the following information:
a.The matter is the
most highly classified subject in the United States, rating even
higher that the H-bomb
b.Flying saucers
exist
c.The modus operandi
is unknown but concentrated effort is being made by a small group
headed by Doctor Vanenevar Bush
d.The entire matter
is considered by the United Sates authorities to be of tremendous
significance
Nuclear
Physicist-Lecturer Stanton T. Friedman received his BSc. and MSc.
Degrees in physics from the University of Chicago in 1955 and 1956.
He was employed for 14 years as a nuclear physicist by such
companies as GE, GM, Westinghouse, TRW Systems, Aerojet General
Nucleonics, and McDonnell Douglas working in such highly advanced,
classified, eventually cancelled programs as nuclear aircraft,
fission and fusion rockets, and various compact nuclear powerplants
for space and terrestrial applications.
He became interested in UFOs in 1958, and since 1967 has lectured
about them at more than 600 colleges and 100 professional groups in
50 U.S. states, 9 Canadian provinces and 16 other countries in
addition to various nuclear consulting efforts. He has published
more than 90 UFO papers and has appeared on hundreds of radio and TV
programs including on Larry King in 2007 and twice in 2008, and many
documentaries. He is the original civilian investigator of the
Roswell Incident and co-authored Crash at Corona: The Definitive
Study of the Roswell Incident.TOP SECRET/MAJIC, his
controversial book about the Majestic 12 group, established in 1947
to deal with alien technology, was published in 1996 and went
through 6 printings. An expanded new edition was published in 2005.
Stan was presented with a Lifetime UFO Achievement Award in Leeds,
England, in 2002, by UFO Magazine of the UK. He is co-author with
Kathleen Marden (Betty Hill’s niece) of a book in 2007: Captured!
The Betty and Barney Hill UFO Experience. The City of
Fredericton, New Brunswick, declared August 27, 2007, Stanton
Friedman Day. His book Flying Saucers and Science was
published in June 2008 and is in its 3rd printing. His newest book,
also co-authored with Kathleen Marden, is Science Was Wrong
released in June 2010.
He has provided written testimony to Congressional Hearings,
appeared twice at the UN, and been a pioneer in many aspects of
ufology including Roswell, Majestic 12, The Betty Hill-Marjorie Fish
star map work, analysis of the Delphos, Kansas, physical trace case,
crashed saucers, flying saucer technology, and challenges to the
S.E.T.I. (Silly Effort To Investigate) cultists. He has spoken at
more MUFON Symposia than anyone else.
2010-09-08 Elliot Tiber living history
Meet the Man Whose Story Inspired the Hollywood feature film 'Taking Woodstock'
Taking
Woodstock
Without Elliot Tiber, author
of the true-story memoir Taking Woodstock, there would have been no
Woodstock. Now that the acclaimed movie from Oscar-winning director
Ang Lee (Brokeback Mountain) is being shown all summer long on
national cable channels, this is the perfect time for you to talk
with the real-life Elliot Tiber about those amazing times back in
1969—and how, on the eve of the 41st anniversary of the Woodstock
festival, things have changed (or not changed) since those times.
• How he managed to convince a narrow-minded town to allow thousands
of hippies to celebrate peace, love... and skinny-dipping!
• How, as the Bethel Chamber of Commerce president, Elliot was able
to provide the crucial concert permit to the Woodstock organizers,
and also how he played a part in helping bring them together with
Max Yasgur to lease his farm for the concert in August 1969—after
the original festival site in Wallkill, New York fell through.
• What it was like to watch and be a part of the Woodstock
phenomenon as it electrified the sleepy little town of Bethel, New
York.
• His current plans, which include a busy lecturing schedule; a
brand-new memoir he is writing about his pre-Woodstock life
experiences titled Palm Trees on the Hudson: A True Story of the
Mob, Judy Garland, and Interior Decorating (to be published by
Square One Publishers); and just how things are going these days
with his new little Yorkie terrier named “Woody Woodstock.”
If you haven’t yet seen the film or read the book (cowritten by Tom
Monte), here’s how it all went down: The summer of 1969 found Elliot
Tiber working in Greenwich Village while also trying to make a go
with his parents of their broken-down motel in upstate New York. All
the while, he managed to keep his gay life a secret from his family.
Then something changed, and Tiber found himself forever tied to the
wild and tie-dyed revelry that was Woodstock.
2010-09-08 Douglas Osheroff Nobel Prize in Physics
Member
of Columbia Space shuttle explosion investigation panel
Douglas Dean Osheroff (born August 1, 1945) is
an American physicist
who
shared the 1996 Nobel Prize in Physics with David Lee and Robert C.
Richardson "for their discovery of superfluidity in helium-3"
Osheroff's father was the son of Jewish
immigrants who left Russia and his mother was the daughter of Slovak
immigrants. Osheroff, born in Aberdeen, Washington, earned his
Bachelor's degree in 1967 from Caltech, where he attended lectures
by Richard Feynman and did undergraduate research for Gerry
Neugebauer.
Osheroff joined the Laboratory of Atomic and
Solid State Physics at Cornell University as a graduate student,
doing research in low-temperature physics. Together with David Lee,
the head of the laboratory, and Robert C. Richardson, Osheroff used
a Pomeranchuk cell to investigate the behaviour of 3He at
temperatures within a few thousands of a degree of absolute zero.
They discovered unexpected effects in their measurements, which they
eventually explained as phase transitions to a superfluid phase of
3He. Lee, Richardson and Osheroff were jointly awarded the Nobel
Prize in Physics in 1996 for this discovery.
Osheroff received a Ph.D. from Cornell
University in 1973. He then worked at Bell Labs in Murray Hill, New
Jersey for 15 years, continuing to research low-temperature
phenomena in 3He. In 1987 he moved to the Departments
of
Physics and Applied Physics at Stanford University, where he also
served as department chair from 1993-96. His research is focused on
phenomena that occur at extremely low temperatures.
Osheroff was selected to serve on the Space
Shuttle Columbia investigation panel, serving much the same role as
Richard Feynman did on the Space Shuttle Challenger panel.
He currently serves on the board of advisors of
Scientists and Engineers for America, an organization focused on
promoting sound science in American government.
Osheroff is left-handed, and he often blames
his slight quirks and eccentricities on it. He is also an avid
photographer and introduces students at Stanford to medium-format
film photography in a freshman seminar titled "The Technical Aspects
of Photography." In addition, he has taught the Stanford
introductory physics course on electricity and magnetism on multiple
occasions, most recently in Spring 2008, as well as undergraduate
labs on low temperature physics.
In Oct 2010 Osheroff will be participating in
the USA Science and Engineering Festival's Lunch with a Laureate
program where middle and high school students will get to engage in
an informal conversation with a Nobel Prize winning Scientist over a
brown bag lunch.
2010-09-01 Masoud Moosavi living history
Persian Canadian soldier who survived chemical weapons in The Iran
Iraq War
This
is a must listen to series of shows.
The Iran Iraq war took place
between 1980 to
1988. There was a total of
70,000,000
combatants and an estimated 1
million casualties. Those are the statistics. But what of the human
carnage?
What of the young Iranian
soldier retching his guts out trying to breathe and survive yet
another of Saddam’s chemical attacks?
What of the
10
year old Iranian child soldier who was ordered to walk through a
mine field in advance of armored tanks?
What of the Iranian mother
raising her children with bombardments from Iraqi
planes taking place?
What of being buried alive
when a shell explodes inches from your fox hole?
What of speaking to a dead
Iraqi soldier who you see as a brother not an enemy
Masoud Moosavi is a
Canadian. He is also a Persian who saw the evil of this war and its
barbaric chemical attacks up close and very personal. This is his
story. It is now our story. It is a story
that must be told for future generations of Canadians. For through
it all runs the hope for a better life in peace as Canada became his
Beacon in the Dark.
This afternoon on Brent
Holland, the true story of Masoud Moosavi. His struggle for
survival. His inner endurance in the face of inhumanity and
ultimately his deliverance and new life in Canada. I cannot express
the appreciation for the raw courage and inner integrity Mousad
showed me while taking me on a journey through his experiences in
that G-d awful war during our two hour long interview. Like a time
warp he brought me right along with him through the tears and
adversities, the smell of death and chemicals the thunder of tanks
and shells. You simply must listen and hear. Make no mistake, folks,
we live in the best country in the world. I thank our troops
everyday for keeping it free and safe. G-d bless them one and all.
Oh and by the
way...everything you are about to hear is true.
2010-08-25 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. "I Have A
Dream" Anniversary Special
On
August 28 1963 over200,000
people gathered around the Washington Lincoln Memorial. They came
from everywhere across, not only America,
but the global village as well. They came to hear words. Words that
would express the aspirations of peoples everywhere: freedom and
equality. Little did they know that they would get that and also
bear witness to one of the most pivotal moments in the history of
humanity. After a full day of speeches the crowd was tired form the
hot August sun beating down relentlessly on them. But, no one dared
leave. For Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. had yet to speak.
Dr. King slowly approached
the podium with speech in hand. He began as he always did,
eloquently with a soothing voice. You see Dr. King spoke to us all,
rich, poor, black white as simply human beings for him there was but
one race: human. Even when off camera he never sunk into racial
slurs. For him, like only a handful before, there was no colour of
skin. He was too big for such pettiness. He transcended hate.
Like so often occurred Dr.
King went off the prepared text. It was as if a storm of emotion was
swelling up from his depths a storm that was being held at bay by
the pages in front of him. Finally the storm broke. What came out of
his mouth weren't simple clichés and platitudes, what emerged were
the foundations of a testament greater than words. In that speech he
gave first from his person, then from his soul and
finally from his eternal spirit for at that moment he was one with
G-d and it was if the Almighty was speaking through him directly to
us.
Since then, there
has never been a time when I hear video or tapes of Dr. King's
speeches when I fail to get goose bumps for he has elevated me and
perhaps all of us to go forth and achieve more than we ever thought
capable of ourselves. But, he knew, he knew we were
capable of that and so much more. Today we all Have A Dream and
today in the honour and memory of Dr. King we work to make that
dreama reality. Now and forever.
2010-08-25 Mark Lane Living History Civil Rights Freedom Rider
Civil
Rights Freedom Riders & the Assassination Of Dr. Martin Luther King
Jr.
Mark Lane knew Dr King, Jesse Jackson,
Ralph Abernathy personally and organized Dr. King's first mass
rally in Harlem. Mark was also a Freedom Rider and was
ominously thrown in jail for having the audacity to travel with
a *n-g-r*. He tells us of a phone call to his other
personal friend Attorney General Bobby Kennedy for protection
for the Freedom Riders. Mark was also JFK's New York campaign
manger and worked closely with both Kennedys. Mark also ran for
Vice president. Mr. Lane was active in the
Civil Rights movement beginning in the 1950's. He successfully
challenged New York University when that institution insisted upon
requiring its prospective students to list their race and religion.
As an attorney he successfully challenged the special jury system in
New York City, a system which systematically excluded Blacks and
Puerto Ricans from serving as jurors
2010-08-18 Chief Hazel Fox Recollet of The
Wikwemikong Unceded Indian Reserve
Wiki
Pow Wow
Wikwemikong Unceded
Indian Reserve (usually known as Wikwemikong or Wiky) is an
Indian reserve in the north-eastern section of Manitoulin Island
in Manitoulin District, Ontario, Canada. Wikwemikong is an
unceded Indian reserve in Canada, which means that it has not
"relinquished title to its land to the government by treaty or
otherwise." The name Wikwemikong means "bay of beavers".
The reserve is occupied
by Ojibwa, Odawa and Potawatomi peoples, under the Council of
Three Fires. From 1836 to 1862, the entirety of Manitoulin
Island was set aside as the "Manitoulin Island Indian Reserve"
under the Bond Head Treaty. The most important of the
pre-confederation treaties were the Robinson Treaties because
all subsequent treaties were modeled after these! In 1850,
William B Robinson, a government negotiator and former fur
trader, proposed that First Nations reserves be created on the
Crown Land acquired through treaties. These Reserves were
intended to be the answer to what the immigrant settlers needed
for land settlement. First Nation peoples would be set apart on
reserves from the new settlers. The Robinson-Huron and
Robinson-Superior treaties were signed in September 1850 for
large territories north of the two Great Lakes.
According to written
records, Lake Huron and Lake Superior area leaders surrendered
nearly 15 000 000 hectares of land in exchange for the
establishment of 24 RESERVES and a payment of approximately $10
000 to be followed by additional annual payment of $2700.
However, First Nations leaders were lead to believe that the
agreement was to share the land with the colonists and retain
their rights to hunt and fish throughout the area.
Wikwemikong as it exists
today was created in 1968, when the two unceded bands and the
Point Grondine band amalgamated as the Wikwemikong band.
The
reserve is also home to the Wikwemikong Cultural Festival
(Wikwemikong Pow Wow) which is held annually every Civic Holiday
Weekend (first weekend in August).
This annual event is
touted as the largest and oldest Pow Wow in Eastern Canada.
Considered to be one of the major Pow Wows in North America, it
is attended by many Aboriginal dancers who participate in
competition of all age ranges, demonstrating Traditional, Grass,
Jingle, and Fancy Dancing.
- Mark Lane names names & reveals the "who and the why" behind the
assassination
The assassination of President Kennedy in 1963
continues to be shrouded in mystery and controversy. Now, for
the first time in almost thirty years, explosive new evidence
reveals much about the CIA’s involvement in an event that devastated
the entire nation and irrevocably altered the course of history.
In Plausible Denial, Mark Lane, the author of Rush to
Judgment, the provocative and bestselling critique of the
Warren Commission’s official report on the assassination, makes
startling revelations about the CIA’s involvement in a plot to
murder the president.
Nearly
two decades prior to Oliver Stone’s JFK, Executive
Action, a fiction film, used actual news footage from the
tumultuous events of 1963, never deviating from the historical
record regarding the facts surrounding the assassination.
Produced in 1973 as a major motion picture starring Burt
Lancaster and Robert Ryan, Executive Action was described
as “the most controversial movie of the decade.” As directed
by David Miller, it thrillingly depicts a daring plot to change the
course of US policy by eliminating the man responsible.
“Everything we show is supported by evidence” stated Miller,
adding that co-stars Lancaster and Ryan were initially skeptical
about the conspiracy idea, but were persuaded by the weight of
factual material. As Executive Action tensely builds
toward its climax, it poses the real possibility that a complex
conspiracy was the cause of those fateful events in Dallas on
November 22, 1963.
The original screenplay, written by Mark Lane, was based upon his
work in investigating the assassination.
Lawrence Hill is the son of
American immigrants — a black father and a white mother
— who came to Canada the day after they married in 1953 in
Washington, D.C. On his father's side, Hill's grandfather and great
grandfather were university-educated, ordained ministers of the
African Methodist Episcopal Church. His mother came from a
Republican family in Oak Park, Illinois, graduated from Oberlin
College and went on to become a civil rights activist in D.C. The
story of how they met, married, left the United States and raised a
family in Toronto is described in Hill's bestselling memoir Black
Berry, Sweet Juice: On Being Black and White in Canada
(HarperCollins Canada, 2001). Growing up in the predominantly white
suburb of Don Mills, Ontario in the sixties, Hill was greatly
influenced by his parents' work in the human rights movement. Much
of Hill's writing touches on issues of identity and belonging.
Lawrence Hill's third novel
was published as The Book of Negroes in Canada, Great Britain, South
Africa and Jamaica and as Someone Knows My Name in the USA,
Australia and New Zealand. It won the overall Commonwealth Writers’
Prize for Best Book, the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, the
Ontario Library Association’s Evergreen Award and CBC Radio’s Canada
Reads. The book was a finalist for the Hurston/Wright LEGACY Award
and longlisted for both the Giller Prize and the IMPAC Award.
Hill is also the author of
the novels Any Known Blood (William Morrow, New York, 1999 and
HarperCollins Canada, 1997) and Some Great Thing (HarperCollins
2009, originally published by Turnstone Press, Winnipeg, 1992).
Hill's most recent
non-fiction book The Deserter's Tale: the Story of an Ordinary
Soldier Who Walked Away from the War in Iraq (written with Joshua
Key) was released in the United States, Canada, Australia, Japan and
several European countries.
Hill won the National
Magazine Award for the best essay published in Canada in 2005 for
"Is Africa's Pain Black America's Burden?" (The Walrus, February
2005). In 2005, the 90-minute film document that Hill wrote, Seeking
Salvation: A History of the Black Church in Canada, Travesty
Productions, Toronto (2004), won the American Wilbur Award for best
national television documentary.
Formerly a reporter with The
Globe and Mail and parliamentary correspondent for The Winnipeg Free
Press, Hill also speaks French and Spanish. He has lived and worked
across Canada, in Baltimore, and in Spain and France. As a volunteer
with Canadian Crossroads International, he has traveled to the West
African countries Niger, Cameroon and Mali. He has a B.A. in
economics from Laval University in Quebec City and an M.A. in
writing from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. Hill now lives,
writes and runs in Hamilton, Ontario.
How
Political Garbage Made the United States Canada's Largest DumpA
botched billion-dollar contract, environmental terrorism, political
cowardice ... This is the true story of how the Adams Mine landfill
project, the most environmentally sound and cost-effective solution
to Ontario’s garbage disposal crisis, and a world class rail
transportation opportunity was killed by political mismanagement by
the City of Toronto and the Government of Ontario. The Adams Mine
landfill survived fifteen years of environmental assessments and
contract tenders, four provincial governments, five municipal
elections and an international cross-border trucking dispute, only
to be trashed by the stroke of a political pen. The actions of
environmentalists, media and senior politicians — Dalton McGuinty,
Mike Harris, Bob Rae, Jack Layton, Mel Lastman — set against the
actions of ordinary citizens striving to do the right thing for
Ontario, weave a disturbing tale of political garbage.
How it happened, why it happened — and why millions of tonnes of
Ontario garbage are to this day being trucked to landfills in the
United States — is a story of people, perseverance and
politics. It has never been told before.
2010-07-28
Reza Kahlili CIA undecover agent inside Iran
A
Time To Betray
A true story as exhilarating as a great spy thriller, as
turbulent as today's headlines from the Middle East, A Time
to Betray reveals what no other previous CIA operative's
memoir possibly could: the inner workings of the notorious
Revolutionary Guards of Iran, as witnessed by an Iranian man
inside their ranks who spied for the American government. It is
a human story, a chronicle of family and friendships torn apart
by a terror-mongering regime, and how the adult choices of three
childhood mates during the Islamic Republic yielded divisive and
tragic fates. And it is the stunningly courageous account of one
man's decades-long commitment to lead a shocking double life
informing on the beloved country of his birth, a place that once
offered the promise of freedom and enlightenment—but instead
ruled by murderous violence and spirit-crushing oppression.
Reza Kahlili grew up in Tehran surrounded by his close-knit
family and two spirited boyhood friends. The Iran of his youth
allowed Reza to think and act freely, and even indulge a
penchant for rebellious pranks in the face of the local mullahs.
His political and personal freedoms flourished while he studied
computer science at the University of Southern California in the
1970s. But his carefree time in America was cut short with the
sudden death of his father, and Reza returned home to find a
country on the cusp of change. The revolution of 1979 plunged
Iran into a dark age of religious fundamentalism under the
Ayatollah Khomeini, and Reza, clinging to the hope of a Persian
Renaissance, joined the Revolutionary Guards, an elite force at
the beck and call of the Ayatollah. But as Khomeini's tyrannies
unfolded, as his fellow countrymen turned on each other, and
after the horror he witnessed inside Evin Prison, a shattered
and disillusioned Reza returned to America to dangerously become
"Wally," a spy for the CIA.
In the wake of an Iranian election that sparked global outrage,
at a time when Iran's nuclear program holds the world's anxious
attention, the revelations inside A Time to Betray could
not be more powerful or timely. Now resigned from his secretive
life to reclaim precious time with his loved ones, Reza Kahlili
documents scenes from history with heart-wrenching clarity, as
he supplies vital information from the Iran-Iraq War, the Marine
barracks bombings in Beirut, the catastrophes of Pan Am Flight
103, the scandal of the Iran-Contra affair, and more . . . a
chain of incredible events that culminates in a nation's fight
for freedom that continues to this very day.
2010-07-21Mark Lane - Jim Jone's
People's Temple Jonestown witness & survivor
Jonestown
Massacre
Mark Lane is living history.
Lane was present in Jonestown during the events of November 18,
1978, when more than 900 Peoples Temple members died in a
murder-suicide by cyanide poisoning, and Congressman Leo Ryan and
four others were murdered at a nearby airstrip. During the visit of Congressman Ryan, Lane helped
represent the Temple with its other attorney, Charles R. Garry.
Late in the afternoon of
November 18, two men wielding rifles approached Lane and Garry and
told them bluntly they were to be executed. While waiting for their
execution Lane heard the cries of children and gunshots less than
200 yards from where he was. The long black night of murder at
Jonestown had begun.
2010-07-21Mark Lane - Lawyer for The
American Indian Movement - Wounded Knee 1973
Wounded
Knee 1973
Mr. Lane represented the American Indian Movement
at the historic Wounded Knee trial, which he won. Following
the trial, the United States District Court judge who had tried the
case said, "Mark Lane is the finest investigative lawyer in
America."
The 1890 massacre at Wounded
Knee of over 300 men, women and children was one of the most brutal
acts of the U.S. government. Pine Ridge Reservation was created
based on a treaty negotiated in response to the armed resistance of
the tribe.
Today there are families who
trace their history back to the Wounded Knee massacre and to signers
of the 1868 Fort Laramie Treaty.
In 1973, many elders feared
that their cultural traditions and religious ceremonies were quickly
being lost. Hopelessness was growing out of the lack of leadership
from the tribal council, as well as a series of incidents including
the killing by police of an Indian youth in the reservation border
town of Custer.
Continued collaboration by
the tribal leaders with anti- Indian policies of the federal
government led to the occupation of the Wounded Knee hamlet, the
site of the 1890 massacre. Oglala Sioux Tribe members and leaders of
AIM undertook an action to dramatize the conditions on Pine Ridge
Reservation. As a result, the world's attention became focused on
the racism faced by Indians on reservations and in the cities, too.
The occupation became a
71-day struggle between activists and armed FBI agents and the
National Guard. Those occupying believed the conditions were so
drastic that they had to take a stand. Many expected to be killed -
like their ancestors in 1890 - and two did die.
2010-07-14 Dr. Francis. S.
Collins - leader of The Human Genome Project
“His groundbreaking work has changed the very ways we
consider our health and examine disease.”
— President Barak
Obama
“Man’s knowledge of man is
undergoing the greatest revolution since Leonardo, and Francis
Collins is at the leading edge of it. I am a better doctor today
because Dr. Collins was my genetics professor in medical school, and
now, the world gets to benefit from his wisdom by reading The
Language of Life.”
— Dr. Sanjay Gupta,
Neurosurgeon at Emory University and Chief Medical Correspondent for
CNN
Francis Collins has been at the forefront of this revolution. He
was, for fifteen years, the head of the international Human Genome
Project, and he now serves as the Director of the National
Institutes of Health. He knows, better than anyone, how widespread
are the misperceptions about human genetics. Just in the past
decade, most of what you think you know about DNA has been
overturned. Much of the advice given routinely by health care
providers is ill informed, so you need to educate yourself about
this rapidly moving area of medicine. You are guaranteed to face
some surprises, and some difficult choices about personal knowledge,
treatment, and family risk.
The
Canadian Century: Moving Out Of America's Shadow
For
years Canada has lived in the shadow of the United States. No more.
As the authors argue, while the United States was busy precipitating
a global economic disaster, Canada was on a path that could lead it
into an era of unprecedented prosperity. It won't be easy. We must
be prepared to follow through on reforms enacted and complete the
work already begun. If so, Canada will become the country that
Laurier foretold, a land of work for all who want it, of
opportunity, investment, innovation and prosperity. Laurier said
that the twentieth century belonged to Canada. He was absolutely
right; he was merely off by 100 years.
What warps when you're
traveling at warp speed? What is the difference between a wormhole
and a black hole? Are time loops really possible, and can I kill my
grandmother before I am born? Anyone who has ever wondered �could
this really happen?" will gain useful insights into the Star Trek
universe (and, incidentally, the real world of physics) in this
charming and accessible guide. Lawrence M. Krauss boldly goes where
Star Trek has gone-and beyond. From Newton to Hawking, from Einstein
to Feynman, from Kirk to Picard, Krauss leads readers on a voyage to
the world of physics as we now know it and as it might one day be.Lawrence
M. Krauss is Ambrose Swasey Professor of Physics and
Professor of Astronomy and Director of the Center for Education and
Research in Cosmology and Astrophysics at Case Western Reserve
University. He is the only physicist to have received the top awards
by the American Physical Society, the American Institute of Physics,
and the American Association of Physics Teachers
2048
Project Humanity's Written Agreement To Live Together
Our mission is to educate students and the
public about the evolution of human rights, and to provide a process
to draft an international framework for enforceable human rights
that can be in place by the year 2048, the 100th anniversary of the
Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Welcome! The goal is to
draft an international bill of rights that is enforceable in the
courts of all countries. 2048 asks for input from people in all
professions and all countries to draft this document. Please choose
the buttons above to make a general comment about the idea of an
international bill of rights and choose from the buttons below if
you would like to make a comment about a particular article within
the draft document. All comments are reviewed by the staff of the
2048 project, and any change made to the draft document includes a
description of the comment that was the catalyst for the change.
Thank you very much for your participation. It does not matter who
makes the comment. 2048 measures all comments equally based upon the
weight of the idea.
An
Irish Heart - How A Small Immigrant Community Shaped Canada
During the Great Famine of the 1840s, thousands
of impoverished Irish immigrants, escaping from the potato crop
failure, fled to Canada on what came to be known as “fever ships.”
As the desperate arrivals landed at Quebec City or nearby Grosse
Isle, families were often torn apart. Parents died of typhus and
children were put up for adoption, while lucky survivors travelled
on to other destinations. Many people made their way up the St.
Lawrence to Montreal, where 6,000 more died in appalling conditions.
Despite these terrible beginnings, a thriving Irish settlement
called Griffintown was born and endured in Montreal for over a
century. The Irish became known for their skill as navvies, building
our canals and bridges, working long hours in factories, raising
large, close-knit families. This riveting story captures their
strong faith, their dislike of authority, their love of drink, song
and a good fight, and their loyalty.
Filled with personal recollections drawn from extensive author
interviews, An Irish Heart recreates a community and a
culture that has a place of distinction in our history. From D’Arcy
McGee and Nellie McClung to the Montreal Shamrocks, Brian Mulroney
and beyond, Irish Canadians have made their mark.
2010-06-23 Ky-Mani Marley - son
of the legendary King of Reggae Music Bob Marley
Dear
Dad -
'The harder the battle, the sweet of Jah
victory.' — Bob Marley
This compelling narrative
chronicles young Ky-Mani's gritty ascent out of the bullet-riddled
life of street conflict and crack selling. An internationally known
recording and performing artist, Ky-Mani shares his own story of
personal redemption through his music, writing about his
experiences, his struggles, and what he has survived to make it to
the world stages he now commands as aGrammy-nominated musical artist
and philanthropist. THE STORY THE MARLEY FAMILY APPARENTLY DOESN'T
WANT YOU TO KNOW This memoir is the book the Marley Family tried to
stop. By legal standards, they committed tortious interference as an
attempt to stop it from going into print and to censor the author
from telling his story. You now have in your hand that story in its
uncensored form. Ky-Mani Marley, is a Grammy nominated reggae-music
artist, film actor and son to legendary reggae icon Bob Marley. Born
in Falmouth, Jamaica in 1976, his road to the world stage was
wrought with challenge and even poverty growing up on the streets of
Miami, Florida. Estranged to his 10 other siblings and family
fortune early in his life, Ky-Mani fatefully discovered his inherent
musical talent and arose to record 4 critically acclaimed albums,
including the mega-hit entitled "Dear Dad".
In 1996, just after the second 1995 near nation ending Quebec
Referendum to separate from Canada, Howard formed the Quebec
Political Action Committee (QPAC) with which to take on Quebec’s
Ethnocentric Nationalists who have made the UNRESTRICTED use of the
English language ILLEGAL.
QPAC drove the Quebec government to distraction, effectively
ending any opportunity for Quebec to hold another referendum to
secede from Canada.
For Howard's troubles, his wife Anne endured countless death
threats and were forced to live with armed bodyguards 24/7 for
months at a time between 1996 and 1998.
Howard has been written-up in Time Magazine, The Economist and
far too many other prominent news magazines and newspapers worldwide
to count, including active participation on a CBS 60-Minutes feature
on the language wars in Quebec. In 1996, Howard was included amongst
Canada’s News Makers Of The Year.
Persian
Canadians tell their true stories how they fled
the Iranian regime and came to Canada
This afternoon a special
edition of The Brent Holland Show. It's been one year since the
Iranian Election uprising and those horrific images of Nadia
bleeding to death on the street of Tehran shot from an Iranian
sniper's bullet. Today, we bring you exclusive interviews from
ordinary Iranian Canadians who have fled Iran and now find
themselves with loved ones trapped inside the Iranian regime.
One year ago I was told:
“ Iran is on fire.”
Those were the ominous words given only days ago by personal
friends of mine via telephone from the depths of the interior of
Iran to describe the conflict going on there. It took several
weeks but finally I heard back from them and they were ok but
many had been murdered.
They were born in Iran
but fled and now make their home right here in Canada and are as
Canadian as you or me. Why Canada ? For the opportunity to raise
their children in true freedom. Make no mistake folks; Iran
isn’t Canada where if you’re arrested at a protest you have
basic human rights. Forget about that. This is Iran . If you’re
picked up you may be just disappeared and never heard from
again. It’s hard for us to imagine here in beautiful Sudbury
with the trees, the lakes and where the biggest decision of the
day maybe whether to get a small coffee or a large one. Imagine
being in your home with your family. Your son in his bedroom
studying for an exam when there is that knock: that ever dreaded
knock. You know damn well what it is and you can do nothing but
answer. In come the Iranian secret police that walk past you to
your son’s bedroom and confiscate his computer and then your
worst nightmare: they arrest him. They simply tell you as they
leave if he hasn’t returned in 24 hours to come look for him.
But where? This story is true. Think about that in your own
context, to your own son or daughter
maybe going off to University.
This afternoon you will hear horror stories
of terror and barbarism. You will hear how they fled the Iranian
regime and came to Canada ; how they hold Canada as a beacon of
light in the dark. Indeed all nations of the persecuted hold
Canada as a beacon light. It is something we as Canadians seem
unaware of: just how truly great a nation we are. These are
their stories and now as Canadians they are our stories. One
more thing, all the stories you will hear today are true and
what’s more they are the stories of your neighbours, your
friends, the real people who you see and smile to who live right
along side you.
In 1982, 16-year-old Marina Nemat was arrested on false charges
by Iranian Revolutionary Guards and tortured in Tehran's notorious
Evin prison. At a time when most Western teenaged girls are choosing
their prom dresses, Nemat was having her feet beaten by men with
cables and listening to gunshots as her friends were being executed.
She survived only because one of the guards fell in love with her
and threatened to harm her family if she refused to marry him. Soon
after her forced conversion to Islam and marriage, her husband was
assassinated by rival factions. Nemat was returned to prison but,
ironically, it was her captor's family who eventually secured her
release. An extraordinary tale of faith and survival, Prisoner of
Tehran is a testament to the power of love in the face of evil and
injustice.
2010-06-09 Right Honourable
Irwin Cotler - Nobel Peace Prize Nominee
2010
& Canadian Attorney General
McGill
Professor Cotler teaches constitutional law,
international human rights law, law and poverty, Canadian Charter of
Rights and Freedoms, discrimination and the law, civil liberties,
and comparative and international protection of minorities' rights.
His main research areas are freedom of expression and assaultive
speech, equality law, peace and human rights, and comparative
constitutional law. Professor Cotler is Chair of InterAmicus, the
International Human Rights Advocacy Centre based at McGill Law
School; and Co-Chair of the Canadian Helsinki Watch Group. He has
defended political prisoners in Peru, Tunisia, China, Nigeria,
Indonesia and Russia and he has addressed major academic gatherings
in Washington, Moscow and Jerusalem. He has argued before the
Supreme Courts of both Canada and Israel and he has testified before
parliamentary committees in Canada, the US, Norway, Russia and
various Latin American states.
In 1999 Professor Cotler was
elected Member of Parliament for the federal constituency of Mount
Royal. He was re-elected in November 2000. On December 12, 2003, the
Prime Minister appointed Mr. Cotler Minister of Justice and Attorney
General of Canada. He was re-appointed on July 20th following the
General Election of June 28.
Harvey Cashore has been a senior producer
for CBC’s flagship investigative program, the fifth estate
for twenty years where has prepared news-breaking documentaries on
government mismanagement, international fraud, and justice-related
issues. His in-depth work on the Airbus scandal began in 1994, and
he is considered the top expert on the story. Cashore is the
recipient of numerous awards including: The 2009 Gemini Award for
Best Direction in a News Information Program or Series and
The 2009 Canadian Association of
Journalists' “Best Investigative Journalism” Award.
He has been honoured with five Gemini Award nominations for
Best Documentary and Best Information segment.
Canadians everywhere are familiar with the broad outlines of the
infamous Airbus story. In recent years there have been countless
news stories filed on what has become Canada’s biggest political
scandal. What few know is the story of how this scandal was
unearthed. How one determined journalist kept the story alive — kept
picking at the pieces and posing the difficult questions the
government would have preferred to avoid. The public had the right
to know that millions of taxpayers’ dollars went missing in the sale
of Airbus jets to a Canadian Crown Corporation, and they had a right
to know where that money ended up. The
Truth Shows Up is a compelling and
fast-paced, behind-the-scenes journey with one journalist, and a
team of colleagues, who followed this story from the very beginning.In 1994 Harvey Cashore, then an Associate
Producer with CBC’s the fifth estate, was working on a news
story about bribes in the airline industry. What he came across were
the first fragments on what would become known as the Airbus
scandal, a tale of bribes and kickbacks at the highest level of
federal power.
An exhilarating,
all-access rock memoir from someone who has seen and done it all,
this telling recounts the many experiences of Sam Cutler, the former
tour manager of the Rolling Stones and the Grateful Dead. With
intimate portraits of other stars of the psychedelic circus that was
the music industry in the 1960s and 1970s-including Janis Joplin,
Jimi Hendrix, the Band, the Allman Brothers, Pink Floyd, and Eric
Clapton-this account is an ideal resource for any music fan. A
detailed explanation of the infamous Rolling Stones concert in
Altamont, where a man in the crowd was killed by the Hells Angels,
is also included. iTunes App:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id365685513?mt=8
Lose respect and you
lose the streets. That''s the hard lesson American police learned as
their cities burned in the 1960s. Today, Canadian police are
scrambling to preserve public order from a new "perfect storm"
looming over the horizon and under the political radar. Their
vaunted thin blue line of front-line officers is greyed, frayed, and
stretched to the breaking point. Plagued by failed leadership and
too few recruits, our police are frantically digging in behind the
scenes against the converging triple threats poised to engulf them:
shifting demographics, increasingly complex laws, and unrealistic
expectations. The threat to officers and public safety has never
been greater.
DOUG CLARK is an award-winning investigative
journalist with thirty years'' experience. His books include The
Roaring Game, Dark Paths, Cold Trails: How a Mountie Led the Quest
to Link Serial Killers to Their Victims, which was shortlisted in
2003 for an Arthur Ellis non-fiction award; and Unkindest Cut:The
Torso Murder of Selina Shen. He has written for The Globe and Mail,
The Toronto Star, The Ottawa Citizen, The Edmonton Journal, Saturday
Night, and Maclean''s, among others. He lives in North Gower,
Ontario.
A harrowing tale of survival and
reconciliation by a Rwandan Tutsi who flees his homeland before
the 1994 genocide and later returns to be elected speaker of the
Rwandan parliament, only to be forced into exile once again
This memoir tells the story of Joseph Sebarenzi,
whose parents, seven siblings, and countless other family
members were among 800,000 Tutsi brutally murdered over the
course of ninety days in 1994 by extremist Rwandan Hutu.
Outbreaks of ethnic violence had been occurring
in Rwanda since colonial times when the Belgians ruled the
region. As a child, Sebarenzi twice hid with his mother during
episodes of killing, narrowly escaping with his life. When he
was a teenager, his father sent him away to school in Congo,
telling him, "If we are killed, you will survive." Sebarenzi
returned to Rwanda after the genocide and was elected speaker of
parliament. But he then learned of a plot to assassinate him,
leading him to once again flee the country in a daring escape.
The poetic title of the book is taken from an
old saying, "God spends the day elsewhere, but He sleeps in
Rwanda," but this African nation is not alone in having had a
shameful history of ethnic violence. God Sleeps in Rwanda
demonstrates how horrific events can occur when the rest of the
world stands by and does nothing. It also shows us how the
lessons of Rwanda can prevent future tragedies from happening in
that country and other parts of the world. Readers will be
inspired by the eloquence and wisdom of a man who has every
reason to be bitter and hateful, but chooses instead to live a
life of love, compassion, and forgiveness.
Just
Watch Me The Life of Pierre Elliott
Trudeau, Volume Two: 1968-2000 (National Bestseller)
This magnificent
second volume, written with exclusive access to Trudeau's private
papers and letters, completes what the Globe and Mail
called "the most illuminating Trudeau portrait yet written" -
sweeping us from sixties' Trudeaumania to his final days when he
debated his faith.
His life is one of Canada's most engrossing stories. John English
reveals how for Trudeau style was as important as substance, and how
the controversial public figure intertwined with the charismatic
private man and committed father. He traces Trudeau's deep
friendships (with women especially, many of them talented artists,
like Barbra Streisand) and bitter enmities; his marriage and family
tragedy. He illuminates his strengths and weaknesses - from
Trudeaumania to political disenchantment, from his electrifying
response to the kidnappings during the October Crisis, to his
all-important patriation of the Canadian Constitution, and his
evolution to influential elder statesman. John English is Professor
of History, University of Waterloo. Citizen of the World
was a multi-award winner and a Globe and Mail Best Book.
Contact
Charlie: The Canadian Army, The Taliban and the Battle that Saved
Afghanistan
In the summer of
2006, a Canadian army patrol travelling through Afghanistan''s
Panjwayi region-a densely packed maze of villages, fields and
vineyards west of Kandahar-surprised an unexpectedly large force of
Taliban fighters. The soldiers of the Princess Patricia''s Canadian
Light Infantry had stumbled into a hornet''s nest, the largest
buildup of Taliban forces in the region since their regime had
fallen in 2001. The Canadians found themselves up against opponents
who were suicidally brave, cunning at planting mines and roadside
bombs, and experienced at disappearing into the scenery whenever
they chose. As their commanders threw more and more soldiers into
what became a gruelling, drawn-out struggle, the troops of the
battalion''s Charlie Company found themselves at the forefront of
every firefight and ambush in what became a desperate, two-month
pitched battle. The 150 soldiers of Charlie Company suffered more
casualties and earned more decorations for bravery than any other
Canadian unit since the Korean War and came into contact with the
enemy so many times they became known simply as "Contact Charlie."
In Contact Charlie , National Post reporter and embedded journalist
Chris Wattie offers an intimate and harrowing look at the series of
battles that would eventually take the lives of seven soldiers,
including Captain Nichola Goddard, Canada''s first female combat
casualty, and veteran soldier Sergeant Vaughn Ingram, who died
trying to save one of his young troops. Based on Wattie''s own
experience in Afghanistan, as well as hundreds of post-tour
interviews with the men and women on the ground, Contact Charlie is
a rare piece of military writing, providing readers with a
behind-the-scenes look at the stories that made headlines that
summer-and continue to do so today.
CHRIS WATTIE is a senior national reporter with
the National Post , and one of the first Canadian reporters embedded
with the army when he accompanied Canadian troops on the
International Security Assistance Force mission in Kabul in 2003. He
was also with the Canadian Forces'' disaster assistance response
team in Sri Lanka for the aftermath of the 2005 tsunami. In January
2006, he travelled to Kandahar with the first troops of the Canadian
battle group deployed to southern Afghanistan and was embedded for
eight weeks.
When Canadian soldier Fred Doucette was deployed to
Bosnia-Herzegovina as a UN peacekeeper in 1995, he had a
premonition that this tour of duty would be different. He had
been posted to Cyprus in the 1970s and 1980s, but the horrors of
the Bosnian conflict of the 1990s were beyond imagining.
Doucette takes us to the heart of the conflict as the Bosnian
Serb forces launch a massive, concerted assault. Sarajevo, the
largely Muslim Bosnian capital, is devastated. Thousands of
Sarajevans perish. UN forces, tasked with imposing and
maintaining peace between the warring forces, realize this is an
impossible task.
Upon his return to Canada, Doucette begins his own war with
posttraumatic stress disorder. Nightmares and flashbacks plague
his days and nights. Traumatized and disoriented, he must learn
to face himself, his family and his army once again.With raw emotion, Empty Casing tells
the story of the making and unmaking of a soldier, and the growth of a man.
Hope
For Animals And Their World: How Endangered Species Are Being
Rescued From The Brink
At a time when animal
species are becoming extinct on every continent and we are
confronted with bad news about the environment nearly every day,
Jane Goodall, one of the world''s most renowned scientists, brings
us inspiring news about the future of the animal kingdom. With the
insatiable curiosity and conversational prose that have made her a
bestselling author, Goodall-along with Cincinnati Zoo Director Thane
Maynard-shares fascinating survival stories about the American
Crocodile, the California Condor, the Black-Footed Ferret, and more;
all formerly endangered species
Interweaving her own first-hand experiences in the field
with the compelling research of premier scientists, Goodall
illuminates the heroic efforts of dedicated environmentalists and
the truly critical need to protect the habitats of these beloved
species. At once a celebration of the animal kingdom and a
passionate call to arms, HOPE FOR ANIMALS THEIR WORLD presents an
uplifting, hopeful message for the future of animal-human
coexistence.
Swine flu. MRSA. Unusual concentrations of cancer
and other diseases. Massive fish kills from algal blooms and
flesh-eating parasites. Recalls of meats, vegetables, and fruits
because of deadly E-coli bacteria contamination. Recent public
health crises raise urgent questions about how our animal-derived
food is raised and brought to market. In Animal Factory, bestselling
investigative journalist David Kirby exposes the powerful business
and political interests behind large-scale factory farms, and tracks
the far-reaching fallout that can contaminate our air, land, and
water supply.
In this thoroughly researched book, Kirby follows
three families and communities whose lives are utterly changed by
immense neighboring animal farms. These facilities, known as
“Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations,” or CAFOs, confine
thousands of pigs, dairy cattle, and poultry in small spaces, often
under stressful conditions, and generate enormous volumes of fecal
and biological waste as well as other toxins. Weaving science,
politics, big business, and everyday life, Kirby accompanies these
families in their 20-year struggle against animal factories. A North
Carolina fisherman takes on pig farms upstream to preserve his
river, his family’s life, and his home. A mother in a small Illinois
town pushes back against an outsized cattle farm and its devastating
impact. And, a Washington state grandmother becomes an unlikely
activist when her home is covered with soot and her water supply is
compromised by runoff from leaking lagoons of animal waste.
Animal Factory is an important book about our
American food system gone terribly wrong—and the people who are
fighting to restore sustainable farming practices and safe natural
resources.
Khaled
Hosseini was born in Kabul, Afghanistan, in 1965. His father was a
diplomat with the Afghan Foreign Ministry and his mother taught
Farsi and History at a large high school in Kabul. In 1976, the
Afghan Foreign Ministry relocated the Hosseini family to Paris. They
were ready to return to Kabul in 1980, but by then Afghanistan had
already witnessed a bloody communist coup and the invasion of the
Soviet army..
The Hosseinis
sought and were granted political asylum in the United States. In
September of 1980, Hosseini's family moved to San Jose,
California. Hosseini graduated from high school in 1984 and enrolled
at Santa Clara University where he earned a bachelor's degree in
Biology in 1988. The following year, he entered the University of
California-San Diego's School of Medicine, where he earned a Medical
Degree in 1993. He completed his residency at Cedars-Sinai Hospital
in Los Angeles. Hosseini was a practicing internist between 1996 and
2004..
While in
medical practice, Hosseini began writing his first novel,, The
Kite Runnerr, in March of 2001. In 2003,, The Kite Runnerr,
was published and has since become an international bestseller,
published in 48 countries. In 2006 he was named a goodwill envoy to
UNHCR, the United Nations Refugee Agency. His second novel,,A
Thousand Splendid Sunsswas published in May of 2007. Currently,,A Thousand Splendid Sunssis published in 40 countries. Khaled
has been working to provide humanitarian assistance in Afghanistan
throughh
The Khaled Hosseini Foundationn. The concept for The Khaled
Hosseini Foundation was inspired by a trip to Afghanistan Khaled
made in 2007 with the UNHCR. He lives in northern California.
David Finkel is a staff writer for The
Washington Post, and is also the leader of the Post’s national
reporting team. He won the Pulitzer Prize for explanatory reporting
in 2006 for a series of stories about U.S.-funded democracy efforts
in Yemen. Finkel lives in Silver Spring, Maryland, with his wife and
two daughters.
An eternal tale—not just of the Iraq War but of
all wars, for all time.
It was the last-chance moment of the war. In
January 2007, U.S. President George W. Bush announced a new strategy
for Iraq. He called it the surge. “Many listening tonight will ask
why this effort will succeed when previous operations to secure
Baghdad did not. Well, here are the differences,” he told a
sceptical nation. Among those listening were the young, optimistic,
Army infantry soldiers of the 2-16, the Battalion nicknamed The
Rangers. About to head to a vicious area of Baghdad, they decided
the difference would be them.
Fifteen months later, the soldiers returned
home forever changed. Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post
reporter David Finkel was with them in Bagdad, and almost every
grueling step of the way.
What was the true story of the surge? And was
it really a success? Those are the questions he grapples with in his
remarkable report from the front-lines. Combining the action of Mark
Bowden’s Black Hawk Down with the literary brio of Tim O’Brien’s The
Things They Carried, The Good Soldiers is an unforgettable work of
reportage. And in telling the story of these good soldiers, the
heroes and the ruined, David Finkel has also produced an eternal
tale—not just of the Iraq War, but of all wars, for all time.
Theo Fleury, at 5'6" made a name for himself in a
game played by giants. A star in junior hockey, he became an
integral part of the Calgary Flames' Stanley Cup win in 1989.
Fleury's talent was such that despite a growing drug habit and
erratic, inexplicable behaviour on and off the ice, Wayne Gretzky
believed in him. He became a key member of the gold medal-winning
men's hockey team at the 2002 Olympics.
The Colorado Avalanche picked up Fleury for the
playoffs, and when he signed with the New York Rangers, he was a kid
in a candy store. After one season of his next multi-million-dollar
deal, this time with the Chicago Blackhawks, Fleury suddenly called
it quits and wouldn't explain why.
In Playing with Fire, Theo Fleury takes
us behind the bench during his glorious days as an NHL player and
talks about growing up devastatingly poor and in chaos at home. Dark
personal issues haunted him, with drinking, drugs, gambling and
girls ultimately derailing his Hall of Fame-calibre career.
"I've known Theo Fleury since back in junior, and
I always hated playing against him. Theo was the ultimate
competitor. He would do anything to win. That kind of attitude is
tough to beat. He was an emotional guy, and when we ended up on the
same team in Colorado in 1999, he was still a pest. If I scored, he
would come over and pound me on the back or jump up and hug me and
get on me for not celebrating enough. I am really glad Theo has come
out on top." - Joe Sakic, Captain, Colorado Avalanche
The
real life adventure of Tom Lipscomb to bring back Ché
Guevara's diaries just after his murder in Bolivia
Ever wondered who and got a hold of Ché
Guevara's diaries after Ché's murder in Bolivia October 1967 and
how they found their way back to the States? Join us today for
real living history and the real life adventure of our guest
today, Tom Lipscomb, and how he coerced, bribed and schmoozed
Bolivian Military officials to win them over and bring back
Ché's diaries to the west. Thomas Lipscomb, is an investigative journalist
and publisher, was President of Times Books, the New York Times book
division when it published The Final Report of the House Select
Committee on Assassinations inn 19799. The House Select Committee on Assassinations was
established inn 19766to
investigate both the John F. Kennedy assassination and the Martin
Luther King, Jr. assassination. The Committee investigated untill
19788, and inn 19799issued its final report, and this official
government investigation concluded, are you ready for this: that
President John F. Kennedy was indeed assassinated by a result of a
conspiracy. Thomas H. Lipscomb also edited "The Complete Bolivian
Diaries of Ché Guevara and Other Captured Documents" inn
19688. These diaries revealed the true nature of Ché.
Not the romantic, humanitarian that his myth proclaims, but a cold
calculating murderer of children, those who challenged him and was a
raging homophobe who wanted to forcefully throw all homosexuals off
the island of Cuba.
is a true story that few people ever believed would come to light.
The book uncovers startling revelations, hidden secrets carefully
guarded by Osama bin Laden. These secrets were revealed to Jean by
the only people who could know such private details, his wife and
sonn
GROWING UP BIN LADEN tells the story of a young girl who
married her gentle and kindly first-cousin, enjoying a happy early
marriage with the groom of her choice. But world events thrust her
husband into a frenzy of militant activities, altering his once
pleasing behavior in the process. Thus Najwa's life, and the lives
of her innocent children became a maze of escaping from one country
to another. Osama's fourth-born son, Omar, describes his early
years, the son who wanted nothing but his father's love, but Omar's
quest for his father's attention won him his father's cruelties..
Together, their powerful story as mother and son give us an
extraordinary view of a man hated by so many, yet both loved and
feared by his family, including: Osama's disapproval of modern
conveniences, including electricity and medicinee
His plan to toughen up his sons by taking them into the
desert without food or waterr
Transporting his wives and children to the rough terrain of
Sudan, where he claimed to be preparing them for attacks from
western powers, commanding them to dig holes, and to sleep in
those holes, allowing nothing more than sand and twigs for coverr
Omar's horror at the murder of a boy his own age, by members
of a jihadist group living among them in the Sudan..
Omar's observations of his father, his cohorts, and life in
Tora Bora offer a fascinating perspective on the lives and
interactions of the men who would become the world's most wanted
terrorists..
What happened in the Jeddah bin Laden home on the morning of
September 11, 2001, and Omar's surprise phone call with his
mother, who escaped from Afghanistan only two days before the
shattering events that killed so many innocents..
Every word you will read is true, dispelling the many myths about
Osama bin Laden that are currently circulating..
2010-03--31
Wade Davis- National Geographic Society- National Geographic Society
Wayfinders:
Why Ancient Wisdom Matters In The Modern World
Wade Davis is the bestselling author of several books,
includingg The Serpent and the Rainboww, Light at the
Edge of the Worldd, andd The Clouded Leopardd. He is
also an awardwinning anthropologist, ethnobotanist, filmmaker,
and photographer, and his writing and photographs have appeared
in numerous publications, including thee Globe and Maill,
Maclean'ss, Newsweekk, National Geographicc,
thee Wall Street Journall, and thee Washington Postt.
Davis divides his time between Washington, D.C. and northern
British Columbia.. Over the past decade, many of us have been
alarmed to learn of the rapidly accelerating extinction of our
planet's diverse flora and fauna. But how many of us know that
our human cultural diversity is also going extinct at a shocking
rate? Biologists estimate that 18% of mammals and 11% of birds
are threatened, while botanists anticipate the loss of 8% of
flora. Meanwhile, of the 7,000 languages in the world today, 50%
will disappear innour lifetime. Languages are merely the
canaries in the coalmine: what of the poetry, songs, knowledge,
and ways of seeing encoded in these disappearing voices? Inn The Wayfinderss,
acclaimed anthropologist Wade Davis offers a gripping account of
this urgent crisis. He leads us on a fascinating tour through
aahandful of indigenous cultures and worldviews while reminding
us of the encroaching dangers posed by unchecked globalization.
An enlightening, awe-inspiring, and cautionary look at vanishing
cultures and languages from one of the world's most celebrated
and distinguished anthropologists.
Dr. David E. Guggenheim is a marine scientist,
conservation policy specialist, submarine pilot and
ocean explorer. He is president of 1planet1ocean, a
project of The Ocean Foundation where he is a Senior
Fellow and director of its Cuba Marine Research and
Conservation Program. He is currently leading a major
project to elevate collaboration in marine science and
conservation among Cuba, Mexico and the U.S. to a new
level and leading the first-ever comprehensive research
and conservation program in Cuba’s Gulf of Mexico
region, a joint effort with the University of Havana.
Also known as the “Ocean Doctor” and host of the
ExpeditionCasts podcast series, Dr. Guggenheim is
currently engaged in a special “expedition” to all fifty
U.S. states visiting schools and bringing special
programs about ocean exploration and conservation toyoung students. So far he has traveled more than 35,000
miles, visited 13 states, made 39 speeches and reached more than 10,000 students in schools ranging from the
northernmost community in North America, Barrow, Alaska,
to Macksville, Kansas, close to the geographic center of
the lower 48 states, to the southern tip of Florida.
In 2007 he served as a scientific advisor to Greenpeace
for its expedition to map deepwater corals in the Bering
Sea where he piloted the first-ever manned submersible
dives into the Bering Sea’s largest underwater canyons.
Guggenheim played a lead role in building the
recently-formed Gulf of Mexico Alliance, a partnership
among the U.S. Gulf states and 13 federal agencies and
Mexico. Guggenheim is also working to introduce
cutting-edge technologies for sustainable aquaculture
practices to the Americas to reduce pressure on
overfished wild fish stocks. Guggenheim previously
served as Vice President at The Ocean Conservancy,
President & CEO of The Conservancy of Southwest Florida,
co-chair of the Everglades Coalition and president of
the Friends of Channel Islands National Park.
Guggenheim holds a Ph.D. in Environmental Science and
Public Policy from George Mason University in Virginia,
a Master’s in Aquatic and Population Biology from
University of California, Santa Barbara, and a Master’s
in Regional Science and Bachelor’s in Environmental
Studies from the University of Pennsylvania.
For additional information, please see:
www.1planet1ocean.org and
www.OceanDoctor.org
Why
Mexicans Don't Drink Molson: Rescuing Canadian Business from the
Suds of Global Obscurity
Andrea Mandel-Campbell was bureau chief for
London’s Financial Timessin Mexico and correspondent forr
Business Weekkmagazine in Argentina. For ten years she was
a
foreign correspondent in Latin America. She has written
extensively on global competitiveness issues, including business
ties between Canada and China. In 2008 she was awarded an Honorary
Certified International Trade Professional (CITP) designation by
FITT – the world’s leading international trade training and
professional certification authority. She lives in Toronto..
It’s
time a country notorious for its middle of the road, fence-sitting
proclivities, take a stand and come up with a winning strategy for
taking on the world. To do that, we’ll first need to ask ourselves
some hard questions about what it means to be Canadian and what we
want to achieve. Andrea Mandel-Campbell invites you to participate
in this crucial and much-needed debate. Please visitt
her blogor contactt
her directly
Dr. David Suzuki tells
us of his early childhood a part of his life many maybe
unaware. A part of his life where his family was subjected
to racism, oppression and blatant ethnic profiling. The
families valuables sold off to pay for their forced
internment in ethnic camps, no not in Japan or
Germany, right here in British Columbia, Canada!
Dr. David Suzuki is
now a virtual international icon and has been voted one of
the top ten Canadians of all time. Join us for an incredible
story of fortitude and perseverance against entrenched
bigoted racial Canadian government policy. There are many
reasons Dr. Suzuki is admired on a global level ; this is
one of them.
“There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all
crew “ Marshall McLuhann
We only have one planet. We’re all in this togther. And we
can’t sit back and wait for those who govern to legislate our
way to a healthier, greener future. We need community-based
leadership. Let’s make those changes ourselves right now, where
we live every day – in our homes, workplaces and communities..
opinon and keep close tabs on issues constituents
raise in letters, meetings, phone calls and editorial pages of
local papers. You don’t have to be an expert. Your opinion
matters. Here’s a contact list and tips on
getting in touch with political representativess. Contact local mediaa Write a letter to the editor, call a local radio show,
pen an op-ed – make your voice heard! Suggest story angles to
producers and provide background information. (Don’t forget to
commend them for good coverage.) Here’s a contact list and tips
forr
engaging your local mediaato get you started..
Create change in your communityy
Urban sprawl is linked to increased air pollution, rising
obesity rates and loss of agricultural land. The DSF reportt
Understanding Sprawlloutlines ways to stop this problem,
and includes the toolkitt
Driven to Actionnto help citizens protect their communities
from overdevelopment. Invite neighbours and friends to help you
effect the changes you want to see..
Volunteerr DSF has offices in Vancouver, Toronto, Ottawa and
Montreal and there are Canadians across the country who feel
called too
volunteer with uss. You can also contact yourr
local
volunteer centreeto check out other organizations working
for the environment..
Support the Foundation Our work towards a healthy environment is only possible
with the help of people like you. Give, become a monthly donor,
remember us in your will, or donate in honour of friends and
family with a gift cards..
Learn more about ways to givee.
Fundraise for DSFF
When you
raise funds for the David Suzuki Foundationn, you help us
find ways for society to live in balance with the natural world
that sustains us. Successful past events have included concerts,
art shows, auctions, and cycling or walking tours. Use your
imagination!
The
Simpsons - An Uncensored, Unauthorized History
The story of TV’s longest-running sitcom and the characters
who created it, marking twenty years on the air
The Simpsons will celebrate its twentieth
anniversary this fall. No other TV show has had the enduring
popularity or cultural influence that The Simpsons has.
When it premiered in 1989, the enthusiastic reaction to its
subversive humor was instantaneous. It is one of the most
astounding successes in TV history.
John Ortved’s unauthorized history—the first
ever to look behind the scenes of this pop culture
phenomenon—tells how the series grew from a controversial cult
favourite to a mainstream powerhouse thanks to a group of
intense, thoughtful, and creative people who came together to
make something unique in the history of American culture. The
writers, animators, producers, and network executives—as much a
dysfunctional but loving family as the show’s stars
themselves—are all here. It’s an intriguing yet hilarious tale
full of betrayal, ambition, and love. More than an amusing
narrative of the making of The Simpsons, this is an
intimate look at the characters behind this cultural
juggernaut—their creativity, intelligence, hubris, ego, and
passion. The result is a book that is as amusing, dramatic, and
compelling as the show itself.
John Ortved is a 28-year-old writer and former
editorial associate at Vanity Fair who lives between New
York and Toronto, where he was born and raised. Growing up, he was
no good at hockey, and was forced to find other ways to impress
girls, like writing, working out, and smoking weed – none of which
worked. At McGill University, where he earned his BA in English
Literature (with a little economics), he wrote a weekly column, The
Art Dummy, for The McGill Daily, which 6 out of 10 students
considered “pretty awesome.”
Professor
Alan M. Dershowitz is
Brooklyn native who has been
called “the nation’s most
peripatetic civil liberties
lawyer” and one of its “most
distinguished defenders of
individual rights,” “the
best-known criminal lawyer
in the world,” “the top
lawyer of last resort,”
“America’s most public
Jewish defender” and
“Israel’s single most
visible defender – the
Jewish state’s lead attorney
in the court of public
opinion.” He is the Felix
Frankfurter Professor of Law
at Harvard Law School.
Dershowitz, a graduate of
Brooklyn College and Yale
Law School, joined the
Harvard Law School faculty
at age 25 after clerking for
Judge David Bazelon and
Justice Arthur Goldberg.
He has also published more
than 100 articles in
magazines and journals such
as The New York Times
Magazine, The Washington
Post. The Wall Street
Journal, The New Republic,
The Nation, Commentary,
Saturday Review, The Harvard
Law Review and the Yale Law
Journal, and more than 300
of his articles have
appeared in syndication in
50 national daily
newspapers. Professor
Dershowitz is the author of
27 fiction and non-fiction
works with a worldwide
audience. His most recent
titles include Rights
From Wrong, The Case For
Israel, The Case For Peace,
Blasphemy: How the Religious
Right is Hijacking the
Declaration of Independence,
Preemption: A Knife that
Cuts Both Ways, Finding
Jefferson – A Lost Letter, A
Remarkable Discovery, and
The First Amendment In An
Age of Terrorism, and
The Case For Moral
Clarity: Israel, Hamas and
Gaza.
In addition to his numerous
law review articles and
books about criminal and
constitutional law, he has
written, taught and lectured
about history, philosophy,
psychology, literature,
mathematics, theology,
music, sports – and even
delicatessens.
In 1983, the Anti-Defamation
League of the B'nai B'rith
presented him with the
William O. Douglas First
Amendment Award for his
"compassionate eloquent
leadership and persistent
advocacy in the struggle for
civil and human rights." In
presenting the award, Nobel
Laureate Elie Wiesel said:
"If there had been a few
people like Alan Dershowitz
during the 1930s and 1940s,
the history of European
Jewry might have been
different." Professor
Dershowitz has been awarded
the honorary doctor of laws
degree by Yeshiva
University, the Hebrew Union
College, Brooklyn College,
Syracuse University and
Haifa University. The New
York Criminal Bar
Association honored him for
his "outstanding
contribution as a scholar
and dedicated defender of
human rights."
The Simon Wiesenthal Centeris often the first to speak out on numerous issues
that are germane to the world at large. The aim of the
Campus Outreach division is to do this "in miniature" at
colleges and universities by teaching about and confronting
anti-semitism, hate and terrorism, promoting human rights
and dignity, standing with Israel, and celebrating diversity
and tolerance. Our mission is to foster an awareness of
contemporary human rights and ethic issues. We want to
encourage participation in exploring Jewish spirit, culture
and identity as human, personal and national
character. We aim to educate about social justice, to learn
to know who we are and what we stand for and how to navigate
life fully and competently.
Monsters, Sexual Predators and every Woman's Darkest
Nightmare
Summer 2009: police discover a backyard
hidden lair at the home of Phillip Garrido. Garrido, a
sexual deviant and sadomasochist pervert has kidnapped a
young girl by the name of Jaycee Lee Dugard and kept her his
sex slave for 18 years fathering two children with her,
while all the time his wife looked on.
Katie Callaway
Hall was 25, a single mom of a 7-year-old son, when Phillip
Garrido entered her life one chilly evening in November 1976. Then
known as Katie Callaway, she was headed to her boyfriend's house
with a carload of food for dinner when a young man with a ponytail
tapped on her window in a grocery store parking lot. His car
wouldn't start. Could she give him a ride? She looked him over and
let him in.
"He didn't look
like what I thought a rapist should look like," she said Friday
during an interview at her Las Vegas home.
She followed his directions around South Lake Tahoe, Calif., as he
guided her to what she thought was his friend's house. He told her
to stop in front of an empty lot, then he struck.
The man, who was unarmed, grabbed the back of her neck and forced
her head into the steering wheel.
"All I want is a piece of ass. If you do everything I say you won't
get hurt. I'm serious," he told her, according to trial transcripts. He handcuffed
her, moved her to the passenger seat and used a leather strap to
bind her head to her knees. He tossed a coat over her and drove off.
She asked him when she would be back. "Maybe I will bring you back
tomorrow," she testified he told her. She asked him where they were
going. "Far away. I've got a shed. I've got it all prepared," he
told her, according to the transcripts. He drove across the state
line to a storage unit in Reno, which housed a carpeted room adorned
with a dirty mattress, sex toys and pornographic magazines.
He raped her
again and again for more than five hours. As the night wore on and
the assaults grew more violent, Callaway Hall eyed a pair of large
scissors and considered her escape. But it was a knock on the shed
door that ended her night of terror. Reno police officer Clifford
Conrad had noticed a car with California plates outside the storage
unit, and upon a closer look he saw the broken lock on the door. He
knocked until Garrido rolled up the door and emerged wearing jeans
and nothing else.
Alan has earned a Golden Globe “Best
Actor” nomination and seven Emmy Award
nominations (five for writing, two for acting.) Television audiences
know Thicke best as psychiatrist and father Jason Seaver from ABC’s
Growing Pains, now syndicated in over 65 countries.
Last year’s Growing Pains: The Reunion was one of
Disney’s highest-rated TV Movies. From 1980 to 1983, THE
ALAN THICKE SHOW became (and remains) the biggest hit in
the history of Canadian daytime television. The American late-night
entry THICKE OF THE NIGHT followed. Alan is
currently starring in CBC Television's monster comedy success
J-POD seen
Fridays at 9PM
The Alan
Thicke Centre for Juvenile Diabetes Research was established in
1989 at the Robarts Research Institute at the London Health Sciences
Centre. The Centre was named for actor Alan Thicke because of his
early connection to London while attending The University of Western
Ontario, and his special interest in diabetes, as he had a son who
developed diabetes as a child.
The Centre, which is really a virtual Centre (
without walls), consists of a mass of dedicated, talented and
creative scientists from the Lawson Health Research Institute, St.
Joseph's Health Care, London, The University of Western Ontario,
Robarts Research Institute and the London Health Sciences Centre.
The work conducted by these scientists in search of a cure has
gained national and international acclaim. But as of yet
the cure has not been found, further funds are required to move
closer to end diabetes. All funds raised by the Centre are
dispersed in London and are eligible to be supplemented by Federal
Government grants. Dr. David Hill is the scientific advisor for the
Alan Thicke Centre
A moving and often
funny look at Native sexuality from some of Canada's best First
Nations and Inuit writers.
A sequel to the highly successful Me Funny, Me Sexy is an anthology
containing thirteen contributions from leading members of North
America's First Nations writing communities. The many highlights
include Lee Maracle's creation story, Salish style; Tomson Highway
explaining why Cree is the sexiest of all languages; Joseph Boyden
asking the eternal question, "Do Native people have less (or more)
pubic hair?"; Marius P. Tungilik looking at the dark side of Inuit
sex; and Marissa Crazytrain discussing her year as a stripper in
Toronto, and how it shaped her life back in Saskatchewan.
Drew
Hayden Taylor, an Ojibway playwright, is widely known for his
thoughtful and witty observations on Aboriginal issues. Other
contributors include Lee Maracle, Joseph Boyden, Tomson Highway,
Gregory Scofield, Daniel Heath Justice, Michelle McGeough, Norman
Vorano, Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm, Makka Kleist, Marius P. Tungilik,
Marissa Crazytrain (a.k.a. Simantha Whitecalf ) and Nancy Cooper.
Haida Gwaii, also known as the Queen Charlotte
Islands, is Canada’s Galapagos, a West Coast archipelago famous for its wild beauty. It is also the
ancient homeland of the Haida nation. In the 1970s, after decades of
rapacious logging, the Haida joined forces with environmentalists in
a high-profile struggle to save the islands. The battle found
powerful expression through Giindajin Haawasti Guujaaw, the
visionary artist, drummer and orator who would later become
president of the Council of the Haida Nation.
The victories over logging interests are just one
highlight in the Haida’s epic, decades-long struggle to take back
control of their own destiny. In 2004, they filed suit against
British Columbia and Canada, laying claim to their entire
traditional territory.
Combining first-person accounts with vivid
prose, Ian Gill captures the excitement of their
struggle, from high-octane logging blockades to defiant legal
challenges. Guujaaw’s audacity, eloquence, tactical skills and deep
knowledge of his homeland put him at the heart of the struggle, and
All That We Say Is Ours reveals the extraordinary role he
played in this incredible story.
In chronicling the Haida’s political and cultural
renaissance, Gill has crafted a gripping, multilayered narrative
that will have far-reaching reverberations.
World Vision is on the ground
right now in the Haitian city of Port-Au-Prince,
helping families and children devastated by the
7.0-magnitude earthquake. Your donations are
vital to the relief efforts and are needed
today.
Every dollar makes a difference and now if you
give a donation to the Haiti Earthquake victims
through World Vision, by February 12th, it will
double in impact due to a generous contribution
from the Canadian Government.
Say the name Erin Brockovich and you think, strong, tough,
stubborn and sexy. Erin is all that and definitely more. She is a
modern-day “David” who loves a good brawl with today’s “Goliaths”.
She thrives on being the voice for those who don’t know how to yell.
She is a rebel. She is a fighter. She is a mother. She is a woman.
She is you and me.
It’s been 10 years since Julia Roberts starred
in the Oscar-winning, tour de force, “Erin Brockovich”.
The film helped turned an unknown legal researcher into a 20th
century icon by winning the largest medical settlement lawsuit in US
history. Since then, Erin hasn’t been resting on her laurels… she
continues to fight hard and win big!
Major
Meagan McGrath was born in Toronto, in 1977, and raised
in Sudbury, Ontario. She enrolled in the Canadian Forces
in 1995, and graduated from the Royal Military College
of Canada in 2000, with a Bachelor of Science
(Chemistry). Upon completion of her Aerospace
Engineering training, Major McGrath served for a short
time as the Maintenance Support Officer at 19 Air
Maintenance Squadron, CFB Comox. She was then posted to
Ottawa in 2001, where she worked as an Imaging Radar
System Engineer, a sub-project of the Aurora Incremental
Modernization Project. On August 15, 2005 Major McGrath
was posted to the Canadian Forces Aerospace Warfare
Centre Ottawa Detachment, the Air Force Experimentation
Centre. Most recently, Maj McGrath has been working on the implementation of a Canadian Forces wide logistics
tool.
Since 2002, Major Meagan McGrath
has climbed many peaks throughout the world, in an
attempt to climb the “Seven Summits” – the highest peak
on each continent. At 0507hrs, on 21 May 2007, Major
McGrath summitted Mount Everest, achieving her goal to
climb the Seven Summits. In January 2008, she became the
First Canadian Woman to summit the Carstenz Pyramid
version of the Seven Summits, becoming the only Canadian
woman to achieve both versions of this mountain
challenge. She continues to pursue her dream to climb
the highest peaks in the world. SUMMARY OF SEVEN SUMMIT CLIMBING
EXPEDITIONS
Jan 2008 Carstenz Pyramid
(16,023ft), Indonesia. Carstenz Pyramid is the one of
the “Seven Summits”.
May 21, 2007 Mount Everest (29,035 ft), Nepal. Mount
Everest is the highest mountain in the World, and as it
is the highest mountain in Asia, is one of the “Seven
Summits”. Apr 2006 Kosciuszko (7,310 ft), Australia. Kosciuszko is
one of the “Seven Summits”.
Jun/Jul 2005 Attempted Gasherbrum II (26,360 ft),
Pakistan. 14th highest mountain in the world. Summit
attempt aborted due to extreme avalanche danger.
Preparation for Everest in 2007.
Dec 2004 Vinson Massif (16,066 ft) Antarctica. Vinson
Massif is one of the “Seven Summits”.
Aug 2003 Mount Elbrus (18,481 ft), Russia. Mount Elbrus
is one of the “Seven Summits”.
June 2003 Mount McKinley (20,320 ft), USA. Mount
McKinley is one of the “Seven Summits”. Dec 2002 Aconcagua (22,841ft), Argentina is the tallest
mountain in the world, outside of Asia, and it is the
tallest mountain in the Western hemisphere. Aconcagua is
one of the "Seven Summits".
Apr 2002 2 weeks on Safari in Africa (Serengeti,
Ngorongoro Crater, etc)
1 week climbing Kilimanjaro (successful summit).
Kilimanjaro (19,563 ft), an anomaly in Africa, as it is
the only glaciated peak on the continent. Kilimanjaro is
one of the “Seven Summits”.
The Battle of the Plains of Abraham is one of the pivotal
events in North American and global history. This clash between
British general James Wolfe and French general
Louis-Joseph de
Montcalm on September 13, 1759, led to the British victory in
the Seven Years’ War in North America, which in turn led to the
creation of Canada and the United States as we know them today.
Rooted in original research, featuring quotations and images
that have never appeared before, Northern Armageddon
immerses the reader in the campaign, battle and siege through
the eyes of dozens of participants, such as British sailor
William Hunter, four Quebec residents enduring the bombing of
their city and a teenage Huron warrior.
Operation
Last Chance: One Man's Quest To Bring Nazi Criminals
To Justice
Sixty years after the end of World War II, not all
those who were faithful to the Third Reich are
dead-some members of the Nazi party and their
collaborators are still alive, and increasingly
difficult to track down. Time is rapidly running
out, but Efraim Zuroff won''t give up. Launching
Operation Last Chance in 2002, he spearheaded a vast
public campaign to locate and bring to justice the
worst suspected Nazi criminals before ill health or
death spare them from potential punishment. Despite
the passage of many years, the reluctance of many
governments to cooperate, and even death threats and
a price on his head, Zuroff''s project yielded the
names of over 520 hereto unknown suspects in 24
different countries and led to dozens of murder
investigations, as well as several indictments and
extradition requests currently pending. Combining
the thrill of a detective story with the inherent
poignancy of the history of World War II and its
aftermath, Operation Last Chance delivers the
important and moving story of one man''s heroic
efforts to honor the victims of the Holocaust.
Simon Weisenthal Center
As a teenager, Minnijean Brown Trickey entered
the Civil Rights Movement -- and
America's consciousness-- through
the front doors of Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. As
a member of the Little Rock Nine, and in defiance of the state, she
took her rightful place in what had previously been a whites-only
school. Walking past armed guards and an angry mob, and in front of
a worldwide television audience, Minnijean helped desegregate public
schools -- and change the course of education in America.
Incredibly, this was just the beginning of her career as a social
activist.
For her work, Minnijean Brown Trickey has received the U.S.
Congressional Medal and a medal from the W.E.B. DuBois Institute, among other citations. Under the Clinton administration, she served
as Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Department of the Interior, for
diversity. She is also the subject of two acclaimed documentaries:
Journey to Little Rock: The Untold Story of Minnijean Brown Trickey
and HBO's Little Rock: 50 Years Later.
Following his national best-seller,
Juno Beach, and with his usual verve and narrative skill,
historian Mark Zuehlke chronicles the crucial six days when
Canadians saved the vulnerable beachheads they had won during the
D-Day landings.
D-Day ended with the Canadians six miles inland-the deepest
penetration achieved by Allied forces during this longest day in
history. But for all the horror endured on June 6 every soldier knew
the worst was yet to come.
The Germans began probing the Canadian lines early in the morning
of June 7 and shortly after dawn counter attacked in force. The
ensuing six days of battle between a Canadian division determined to
widen its hold on the beachhead and an equally determined foe intent
on eliminating Juno Beach was to prove bloodier than D-Day itself.
Although battered and bloody, the Canadians had held their ground
and made it possible for the slow advance toward Germany and
eventual Allied victory to begin.
Holding Juno recreates this pivotal battle and the
ultimate triumph of Canadian arms through the eyes of the soldiers
who fought it, with the same dramatic intensity and factual detail
that made Juno Beach, in the words of Quill & Quire
reviewer Michael Clark, "the defining popular history of Canada's
D-Day battle."
The Nazi juggernaut was ripping across
Europe and it looked as though nothing could stop them. Country
after country fell to the onslaught. Just after
the decimated British forces were forced out of France at
Dunkirk and just weeks prior Operation Barbarossa,
the Nazi invasion of Soviet Russia, a Nazi Messerschmitt was
sighted flying into British airspace over Scotland in the dead
of night. No British aircraft were scrambled to intercept. No
alert was given. Indeed no action was taken at all. Inside the
cockpit was none other than Hitler's number #2 man Rudolph Hess.
Why was he allowed free access into allied airspace and what was
his intention?
His mission was to take part in an emerging
covert plot and coup instigated from the upper echelon of British
power to over throw both the British government and remove
Churchill. The next step was to appease and make peace with the
Nazis and Hitler.
This story has all the makings of a master
mystery novel full of intrigue and plot twists, except for one
thing. It's true. Pulitzer Prize nominee Tom Lipscomb has
done impeccable investigation, as always to the highest standards,
and has turned this epic into a stunning new play: "LAST MAN IN
SPANDAU…. The mystery surrounding Rudolf Hess’s flight, his
subsequent murder and suspected SAS involvement."
You'll never believe just how close we came to
loosing the war except for the will of one man: Winston Churchill.
The plot is afoot.
Thomas
H. Lipscomb is one of the few executives with high-level
experience in both conventional broadcast and print media and
the world of electronic media. He has been both a magazine
publisher of consumer magazines such as
The Ladies Home Journal
and a CEO in book publishing, where he was responsible for
bestsellers by authors as diverse as Agatha Christie, Susan
Isaacs, Craig Claiborne, Jack Anderson, and
William Safire. Books he has published have won
literary awards such as the Pulitzer Prize and National Book
Awards. His most recent publishing position was as founder and
President of Times Books -- The New York Times book division.
He is the author of articles in
The New York Times,
The Wall Street Journal,
The Washington Post, Harpers,
The Nation as well as
The Readers’ Digest etc., front page stories in The
Chicago Sun-Times and The New York Sun, and articles
in internet sites such as The Huffington Post, TechCentral
Station, and the Jewish World Review. He was put up for a
Pulitzer Prize in 2005 by his newspaper for investigative
reporting.
He has
served in numerous non-profit positions including the boards of
PEN, the George Polk Award in Journalism, The New York
University Center for Copyright in New Media, The Museum Digital
Licensing Collective, The Governor’s IslandTechnologyCenter, The Foundation for
Entrepreurialism in the Arts, and the Gibraltar-American
Council. He is a Fellow of The Digital Copyright Forum, a Senior
Fellow at the USCAnnenbergCenter
for the Digital Future, on the board of The Tocqueville
Institute, and on the advisory Board of the World Security
Network, and has been a member of The Council on Foreign
Relations and The New York Academy of Sciences.
Mr. Lipscomb has had numerous speaking engagements at colleges
and universities such as Harvard, Stanford, The University of
Pennsylvania, and Columbia, as well as organizations such as The
Davos World Economic Forum,
The Council on Foreign Relations, The Association of
American Publishers, The Seybold Conference, and The National
Center for Automated Information Retrieval.
He has appeared on many public affairs shows from NBC's
Today Show, and
The ABC Evening News,
to BBC Channel 1 News,
Extra (Germany), News Netherlands,Four Corners and
Fine Print (Iran), MSNBC,
Fox News and
PBS, where he has hosted
“The Digital Age.”
He is a founder and on the board of CardiACT Inc. He is a
founder and formerly CEO of two current public companies, ICC
and Wave Systems, which use proprietary technology to create
advantaged systems for the secure distribution, marketing,
control and auditing of valuable digital information (DRM). He
holds five patents in digital technology and he has received
coverage by Forbes,
Fortune, Business Week, Newsweek, Wired, Advertising Age,
Crain's, Publishers' Weekly, Success and other publications.
ICC was named one of
Fortune Magazine's "25 Cool Companies" in technology (along
with companies such as Netscape and Cisco Systems) and
Newsweek listed
Lipscomb as one of the "50 most influential people
to watch in cyberspace."
Andrew Nikiforuk's Tar Sandsis a
critical exposé of the World's largest energy project - the
Alberta oil sands - that has made Canada one of the worst
environmental offenders on earth.
In Tar Sands, journalist Andrew
Nikiforuk exposes the disastrous environmental, social, and
political costs of the tar sands and argues forcefully for
change. Combining extensive scientific research and compelling
writing, Nikiforuk takes the reader to Fort McMurray, home to
some of the world’s largest open-pit mines, and explores this
twenty-first-century pioneer town from the exorbitant cost of
housing to its more serious social ills. He uncovers a global
Deadwood, complete with rapturous engineers, cut-throat cocaine
dealers, aimless bush workers, American evangelicals, and the
largest population of homeless people in northern Canada. He
also explains that this micro-economy supplies gasoline for 50
percent of Canadian vehicles and 16 percent of U.S. demand.
Readers will learn that oil sands: burn more carbon than
conventional oil, destroy forests and displace woodland caribou,
poison the water supply and communities downstream, drain the
Athabasca, the river that feeds Canada’s largest watershed, and
contribute to climate change. The book does provide hope,
however, and ends with an exploration of possible solutions to
the problem.
Erin Myrren is a student at Western Illinois University,
where she is pursuing a degree in social work. A leading
participant in Take Back the Night, her goal is to raise
awareness of abuse in order to end the stigma and silence. She
is the author of Stolen Innocence, a memoir about
incest. Her writing has appeared in the Daily Herald and Teen
Voices, among others.
Fans of Erin Merryn''s
heart-wrenching debut memoir Stolen Innocence were
left wondering what would become of an emotionally fragile
Erin after her confrontation with the reality of being a
child of incest and molestation. In Living for Today,
readers find that Erin cultivated the strength to face her
abuser and eventually experienced relief from years of
emotional restlessness, while also igniting the beginnings
of a new fearless journey. Living for Today offers
a roadmap for self-discovery, forgiveness, and empowerment
to help readers rid the stigma they have attached to their
trauma and live fully and fearlessly for today. Readers will
learn how they too can:
*Look foward, in spite of an abusive past
*Block off any impending guilt from outing an abuser
*Deal with interfamily strife as a result of incest and
molestation
*Shake off the "victim" tag and replace it with one that
reads "survivor"
Marie Wadden began her journalism career in 1977 at CBC
television in Newfoundland. The following year she took a boat
trip along the Labrador coast for a holiday and saw the Innu
community of Davis Inlet at the height of its addiction crisis.
She's never lost sight of the needs of Aboriginal people since
that time. In 1991 her D&M book, Nitassinan: The Innu
Struggle to Reclaim their Homeland, won the Edna Staebler
award for creative non fiction.
Her radio and television work in Newfoundland and Quebec has
also been recognized with Canadian and U.S. awards. In 2005,
Wadden received the Atkinson Fellowship in Public Policy and
published her research in a Toronto Star series
entitled "Tragedy or Triumph: Canadian Public Policy and
Aboriginal Addictions." She is CBC Radio's network producer in
Newfoundland and lives in St. John's with her husband Chris
Brown and their two children, Nicholas and Naomi.
Aboriginal Healing
Foundation
In 1982, 16-year-old Marina Nemat was arrested on false charges
by Iranian Revolutionary Guards and tortured in Tehran's notorious
Evin prison. At a time when most Western teenaged girls are choosing
their prom dresses, Nemat was having her feet beaten by men with
cables and listening to gunshots as her friends were being executed.
She survived only because one of the guards fell in love with her
and threatened to harm her family if she refused to marry him. Soon
after her forced conversion to Islam and marriage, her husband was
assassinated by rival factions. Nemat was returned to prison but,
ironically, it was her captor's family who eventually secured her
release. An extraordinary tale of faith and survival, Prisoner of
Tehran is a testament to the power of love in the face of evil and
injustice.
Ever had a nightmare where you're falling and can't wake up?
Ever had a nightmare where you're trapped and can't escape. How
about road rage? Ever been a victim? And how you shake from head to
toe wondering if you will be alright? Even this doesn't come close.
No escape. No one to help. Nowhere to hide. The end of your life
facing you, like the person in front of you that just went into the
gas chamber. But these are just words, aren't they, as I sip on my
coffee in peaceful Canada.
Perhaps it is "just" I can't find the
words. Perhaps it is right that no words should ever be found to
describe the indescribable.
Lydia Reich was just a young girl when
she encountered Hitler’s “final solution”. In the interview she
refers several times to a “wagon”, what she is referring to of
course is a train box car. This isn’t a movie folks, this happened.
For real.
She grew up in the 1930s in Germany; she
was ripped from the arms of her mother, virtually, and taken to a
slave labour camp. Later, forced on a death march to Bergen-Belsen.
It is winter as I write this in Canada. It is freezing outside. They
only way to stay warm in the huts at night was for one girl to sleep
on top of the other one night and the next night it would be the
other’s turn. No blankets, no sanitation, no hope. How many of us
would have the drive to live under those conditions.
Lydia Reich told me during the interview
the sole motivation for her staying alive was an inner voice that
told her to survive in order to tell her story. While she lay there
in the camps underfed, undernourished, freezing to death, waiting
for death at any second, the only thing that kept her alive was to
bear witness to what had taken place.
With Anti-Semitism being the highest it
has been since the 1930s, perhaps this is a person we should all
listen to, lest the Shoah should happen again. Please honour Lydia
Reich today and listen to this show and share it, share it with all
who will listen. It is a free download for all.
In God's Battalions, award-winning author Rodney
Stark takes on the long-held view that the Crusades were the
first round of European colonialism, conducted for land, loot,
and converts by barbarian Christians who victimized the
cultivated Muslims. To the contrary, Stark argues that the
Crusades were the first military response to unwarranted Muslim
terrorist aggression.
Stark reviews the history of the seven major Crusades from
1095 to 1291, demonstrating that the Crusades were precipitated
by Islamic provocations, centuries of bloody attempts to
colonize the West, and sudden attacks on Christian pilgrims and
holy places. Although the Crusades were initiated by a plea from
the pope, Stark argues that this had nothing to do with any
elaborate design of the Christian world to convert all Muslims
to Christianity by force of arms. Given current tensions in the
Middle East and terrorist attacks around the world, Stark's
views are a thought-provoking contribution to our understanding
and are sure to spark debate
"The
true story of the first African American Secret Service Agent,
hand picked by JFK himself, on White House Protective detail and
his quest for justice after the assassination of JFK"
From the first African American
assigned to the presidential Secret Service detail comes a
gripping and unforgettable true story of bravery and patriotism
in the face of bitter hatred and unthinkable corruption.
Abraham Bolden was a young African American Secret Service agent
in Chicago when he was asked by John F. Kennedy himself to join
the White House Secret Service detail. For Bolden, it was a
dream come true-and an encouraging sign of the charismatic
president's vision for a new America.
But the dream quickly turned sour when Bolden found himself
regularly subjected to open hostility and blatant racism. He was
taunted, mocked, and disparaged but remained strong, and he did
not allow himself to become discouraged.
More of a concern was the White House team's irresponsible
approach to security. While on his tour of presidential duty,
Bolden witnessed firsthand the White House agents' long-rumored
lax approach to their job. Drinking on duty, abandoning key
posts-this was not a team that appeared to take their
responsibility to protect the life of the president particularly
seriously. Both prior to and following JFK's assassination,
Bolden sought to expose and address the inappropriate behavior
and negligence of these agents, only to find himself the victim
of a sinister conspiracy that resulted in his conviction and
imprisonment on a trumped-up bribery charge.
A gripping memoir substantiated by recently declassified
government documents, The Echo from Dealey Plaza is the
story of the terrible price paid by one man for his commitment
to truth and justice, as well as a shocking new perspective on
the circumstances surrounding the death of a beloved president.
"Katzner's
Train - The True Story of Rezso Kasztner, Unknown Hero of the
Holocaust"
Born Anna Szigethy in
World War II Budapest, Anna Porter and her mother left Hungary in
1956 to escape the increasing Soviet presence. Porter was appointed
an Officer of the Order of Canada in 1992. In 2003, she was awarded
the Order of Ontario. She has also been awarded Honorary Doctoral
degrees from Ryerson University, St, Mary's University, the
University of Toronto, and the Law Society of Upper Canada.
In summer 1944, Rezso Kasztner met with Adolf
Eichmann, architect of the Holocaust, in Budapest. With the Final
Solution at its terrible apex and tens of thousands of Hungarian
Jews being sent to Auschwitz every month, the two men agreed to
allow 1,684 Jews to leave for Switzerland by train. In other
maneuverings Kasztner may have saved another 40,000 Jews already in
the camps. Kasztner was later judged for having "sold his soul to
the devil." Prior to being exonerated, he was murdered in Israel in
1957. Part political thriller, part love story and part legal drama,
Porter's account explores the nature of Kasztner--the hero, the cool
politician, the proud Zionist, the romantic lover, the man who
believed that promises, even to diehard Nazis, had to be kept. The
deals he made raise questions about moral choices that continue to
haunt the world today
The
Montreal Holocaust Centre educates people of all ages and
backgrounds about the Holocaust, while sensitizing the public to the
universal perils of antisemitism, racism, hate and indifference.
Major-General Lewis Mackenzie (ret’d) was born
in Truro, Nova Scotia, and has served in trouble spots around the
world.
In 1992, he commanded the un Protection
Force that opened Sarajevo airport to allow the arrival of
humanitarian aid. He published the best-selling
Peacekeeper: The Road to Sarajevo after retiring from
the Canadian Armed Forces in 1993; “A Soldier’s Peace,” a television
documentary based on the book, won a New York Film Festival Award in
1996. His many honours include the Order of
Canada and the United Nations Medal of Honour. Mackenzie is now a
public affairs commentator on television and in the
Globe and Mail and a sought-after lecturer on leadership
and conflict resolution.
Sandra Ka Hon Chu is a lawyer and senior policy
analyst with the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network. She has worked in
East Timor, Libya, Hong Kong, Canada and the Netherlands.
A searing testimonial to the horrors of sexual violence in war—a
little-known aspect of the Rwandan tragedy.
In the hundred days of genocide that ravaged Rwanda between April
and July 1994, an estimated 250,000 to 500,000 women and girls were
raped. No one was spared. Grandmothers were raped in the presence of
their grandchildren; young girls watched the massacre of their
families before being taken as sex slaves. To a lesser extent, boys
and men also fell victim to sexual violence.
Fifteen years after the Rwandan genocide, The Men Who Killed Me
features testimonials from seventeen survivors. Through their
narratives and portraits, sixteen women and one man bear witness to
the crimes committed against hundreds of thousands of others. In
their strength and courage, they challenge the stigma of surviving
sexual violence and living with HIV/AIDS (an astonishing 70 per cent
of survivors are HIV positive).
"FOB DOC" A doctor on the front lines
in Afghanistan
A compelling and informed observation of the truth of Canada’s
war, from a dedicated Canadian doctor.
Since returning from Afghanistan, Dr. Wiss has continued to teach
nationally and internationally, and re-joined the team at the
Sudbury Regional Hospital Emergency Department. He lives in Sudbury
with his wife Claude and their four-year-old daughter, Michelle.
Royalties from FOB Doc will be donated to the
Military Families Fund,
which was created by former chief of the defence staff General Rick
Hillier to assist military families.
Book excerpt: "We had sent out a patrol in light armoured
vehicles, and they hit an IED on their way back to the fob. Some of
our men were severely wounded and landed on my medics and me within
fifteen minutes of being hit. Forewarned of the seriousness of the
injuries, we called for the MEDEVAC chopper before the wounded men
got to the fob.
2009-11-01 Book is on sale at CopyCopy (both branches) and Old Rock
Café on Minto in Sudbury. Book being sold and signed at Sudbury
Armouries on Remembrance Day at 1 pm. Thanks! Ray
Archives
All shows can be downloaded free of charge. However, unless
otherwise agreed upon, shows are for personal use only and cannot be
copied, altered or broadcast without the expressed permission of
Brent Holland
We recieve no funding whatsoever except your kind donations.
Even a dollar would help out to pay for this web site, software,
mics, etc.
The idea behind the
show is to motivate and inspire university / college age students
and listeners of all ages to excel in service to the global village.
ine
if we had the chance to speak with the doctor who worked on
President Abraham Lincoln after he was fatally wounded? What a
priceless treasure for all time that would be. Tonight we have that
opportunity. Meet Dr. Robert McClelland, the Dallas Parkland
Hospital emergency room surgeon who worked on JFK moments after he
was shot! It has been 48 years since the young president, husband to
Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy and father of two: John Jr. and Caroline,
was gunned down in broad daylight at high noon on the streets of
Dallas. The world has a filmed record of the assassination called
the Zupruder Film that most everyone has seen. But what did the 1st
person witnesses see? 
A
Governor General’s Award–winning author recounts the turbulent years
during which a group of young Canadian painters went from obscurity
to international renown.
tory
Efraim
Zuroff coordinates the center's worldwide effort to locate Nazi war
criminals and bring them to justice. In a career spanning 28 years
he has not only tracked down those who helped perpetrate the
Holocaust, but also convinced often-hesitant governments to
prosecute them.
.JPG)
download
show (30:00)
Six
Million Crucifixions
Roméo
Dallaire was first confronted with child soldiers in unnamed
villages on the tops of the thousand hills of Rwanda during the
genocide of 1994. The dilemma of the adult soldier who faced them is
beautifully expressed in his book's title: when children are
shooting at you, they are soldiers, but as soon as they are wounded
or killed they are children once again.
A Line in the Sand takes up where the bestselling
.jpg)
who
shared the 1996 Nobel Prize in Physics with David Lee and Robert C.
Richardson "for their discovery of superfluidity in helium-3"
Osheroff was selected to serve on the Space
Shuttle Columbia investigation panel, serving much the same role as
Richard Feynman did on the Space Shuttle Challenger panel.
The
reserve is also home to the Wikwemikong Cultural Festival
(Wikwemikong Pow Wow) which is held annually every Civic Holiday
Weekend (first weekend in August).
JFK Assassination
Nearly
two decades prior to Oliver Stone’s JFK, Executive
Action, a fiction film, used actual news footage from the
tumultuous events of 1963, never deviating from the historical
record regarding the facts surrounding the assassination.
Dear
Dad -
McGill
The
Kite Runner & A Thousand Splendid Suns
Playing With Fire
The
Ocean Foundation
In 2007 he served as a scientific advisor to Greenpeace
for its expedition to map deepwater corals in the Bering
Sea where he piloted the first-ever manned submersible
dives into the Bering Sea’s largest underwater canyons.
Guggenheim played a lead role in building the
recently-formed Gulf of Mexico Alliance, a partnership
among the U.S. Gulf states and 13 federal agencies and
Mexico. Guggenheim is also working to introduce
cutting-edge technologies for sustainable aquaculture
practices to the Americas to reduce pressure on
overfished wild fish stocks. Guggenheim previously
served as Vice President at The Ocean Conservancy,
President & CEO of The Conservancy of Southwest Florida,
co-chair of the Everglades Coalition and president of
the Friends of Channel Islands National Park.
