Our guest this week is ex-professional astrologer Marcia Montenegro of Christian Answers for the New Age, who joins us to discuss the diverse teachings and practices of the New Age movement. Neither a religion nor a philosophy, but more precisely a worldview, the New Age offers a perceptive critique of many of the dehumanising features of modern life, but proposes a solution, which (though in many ways attractive) is nevertheless deceptive, harmful, and ultimately incapable of delivering on its promises. Marcia also shares with us her spiritual journey: from her initial rejection of Christianity, through her increasing involvement in the New Age to the point of becoming a professional astrologer and one-time president of the Metropolitan Atlanta Astrological Society, to her eventual coming to faith in Jesus Christ and subsequent work as a missionary reaching out to those involved in the New Age.

 [The New Age, spirit guides, astral travel, astrology, as above so below, the tarot, transcendental meditation, out-of-body experience, numerology, palm reading, theosophy, the Occult, demons, gnosticism, the One, New Thought, reincarnation, spiritual evolution, Age of Aquarius, Age of Pisces, Hinduism, Buddhism, logic, truth, wisdom, knowledge, understanding, the Holy Spirit, Jesus, God, the Calming of the Storm, Paul Tillich, John A. T. Robinson, David E. Jenkins]

Our guest this week is Dr. Frederick vom Saal, Curators' Professor in the Division of Biological Sciences at the University of Missouri-Columbia, who joins us to discuss the substance bisphenol A (or BPA), and to share with us his serious concerns about its impact upon human health.

A component of many of the plastics we use every day, and commonly to be found in products as diverse as computer casings, tooth sealants, canned food linings and even thermal paper till receipts, BPA is used in vast quantities across the globe, and widely considered to be safe by regulating authorities. But, as Dr. vom Saal explains, mounting research is increasingly implicating BPA as a likely significant contributor to a wide array of human health and fertility problems.

Dr. vom Saal also explains how the chemical industry continues to resist these findings by hiding behind outdated principles of toxicology, and shares with us how we can modify our lifestyles to begin reducing our levels of BPA.

[bisphenol A, BPA, endocrine disruptor, sex hormone, thallates, estrogen, estradiol, polycarbonate, polyvinyl chloride, thermal paper, can linings, food containers, tooth sealants, plastic casings, baby bottles, baby toys, polycystic ovary syndrome, PCOS, infertility, miscarriage, premature delivery, breast cancer, sexual function, sperm quality, obesity, type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, hypertension, immune system, kidney, liver, aggression, IQ, epidemiology, Food and Drug Administration, FDA, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, CDC, National Institutes of Health, NIH, American Chemistry Council, ACC, European Food Safety Authority, EFSA , toxicology, epigenetics, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, endocrinology, Wolfgang Dekant]

The veteran Canadian journalist, media critic and documentary film producer Barrie Zwicker joins us for an analysis of the term "conspiracy theory" or "conspiracy theorist." Weaponised by the CIA in the late 1960s as a device for its assets in the media to discourage criticism of the Warren Report, the term "conspiracy theorist" became a powerful thought-stopper and has functioned ever since as a tool of psychological control. Barrie Zwicker also shares with us aspects of his experience as a 9/11 Truther, offers advice on how to respond to accusations, and gives us his forecast on the mainstream media's coverage of the 50th anniversary of the "execution" of JFK.

[conspiracy theory, conspiracy theorist, conspiracy nut, conspiracy whacko, tin foil hat, 9/11, false-flag operations, CIA, National Clandestine Service, NCS, 1035-960, Operation Mockingbird, PSYOP, Psychological Warfare Division, JFK, Lee Harvey Oswald, Warren Commission Report, FDR, Pearl Harbor, Marshall McLuhan, Bertrand Russell, George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, crimestop, Charles Pigden, Big Foot, Elvis, Lochness Monster, Abominable Snowman, Jonathan Kay, Among the Truthers, Peter Dale Scott, SCAD, Charles Pigden, The Muckrakers, tobacco industry]

This week, we are joined by Dr. Michael J. Behe, professor of biochemistry at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania, for an in-depth (and sometimes slightly technical) interview on the theory of Intelligent Design (ID). Author of two iconic books on ID - Darwin's Black Box, and The Edge of Evolution - Dr. Behe explains how his research into the complexity of biological systems at the molecular level led him to question the adequacy of the Darwinian paradigm, and why he now believes that the data point towards Intelligent Design.

We also discuss empirical research indicating the limits of Darwinian processes, the logical status of ID theory, and Dr. Behe responds to objections to ID raised at the famous Kitzmiller vs. Dover court case of 2005.

[Intelligent Design, ID, evolution, Darwinism, Creationism, Michael Denton, Kitzmiller vs. Dover, Establishment Clause, inference to the best explanation, irreducible complexity, bacterial flagellum, intracellular transport, Type III secretory system, TTSS, haemoglobin, thalassemia, glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase, G6PD, E. coli, malaria, sickle-cell disease, protein bonding, Flying Spaghetti Monster, FSM, Pastafarianism, David Hume, William Paley, Charles Darwin, Richard Dawkins, Kenneth Miller, John McDonald, Judge John E. Jones, Richard Lenski, Big Bang Theory, Walther Nernst, peer review, God of the gaps fallacy, self-organisation, chaos theory, complexity theory]

Dr. Paul Craig Roberts returns to the Podcast for a detailed analysis of the claimed "assassination" of Osama bin Laden by US Navy SEAL Team 6 in 2011, and to discuss the many disturbing questions surrounding the suspicious deaths of so many of that Team in the subsequent helicopter shoot-down in Afghanistan on August 6, 2011. Dr. Roberts also discusses false-flag operations, gives an update on Syria, comments upon the ongoing revelations about the NSA and gives his reaction to the 2013 US Government Shutdown.

(We invite listeners also to hear Podcast 29 : In Memoriam Osama bin Elvis, and to consult the notes to that investigation.)

[Osama bin Laden, SEAL Team 6, Abbottabad, Operation Neptune Spear, Geronimo, Al Qaeda, Muhammad Bashir, 9/11, Osama bin Laden buried at sea, USS Carl Vinson, Stratfor, Boeing CH-47 Chinook, Michael Strange, Charles Strange, Boston Marathon bombing, Syria, Iraq, WMDs, Operation Gladio, Baader Meinhof, Operation Northwoods, Gulf of Tonkin, USS Maine, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Emperor Hirohito, false flag, Bashar al-Assad, Vladimir Putin, David Cameron, John Kerry, William Binney, Edward Snowden, Glenn Greenwald, Kirsty Wark, NSA, 2013 US Government Shutdown]

We are once again joined by Dr. Tim Ball, retired professor of Climatology at the University of Winnipeg, for a detailed interview on the ideology of human population reduction that has infiltrated much of the environmental movement. Ignited by Thomas Malthus in the early 19th Century, and fanned into flame by the Neo-Malthusians of the 1960s and '70s, this anti-humanistic ideology became crystallised in the thinking of The Club of Rome; an elitist group, explains Dr. Ball, which pursued the goals of that ideology through instrumentalising the theory of man-made global warming.

We are joined this week by Alaskan-based author, researcher and blogger Niki Raapana, whose investigations into the mind-bending philosophy/religion of Communitarianism led her (with her daughter Nordica Friedrich) to pen The Anti-Communitarian Manifesto and 2020 : Our Common Destiny. Niki, who has adopted a traditional life-style in order to "live outside the dialectic", shares with us what triggered her investigations, and how Communitarianism - the favoured tool of globalists - is gradually effecting a dialectical reinterpretation of our world, and preparing us to accept a New World Order.

[Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Hegelian dialectic, Thesis-Antithesis-Synthesis, Amitai Etzioni, Ideology of Balancing, The Communitarian Network, Asset-Based Community Development, ABCD, John L. McKnight, Barack Obama, Michelle Obama, Problem-Oriented Policing, POP, Weed and Seed, Bill Clinton, Common Purpose UK, American Sociological Association, Technocracy, United Nations, Universal Declaration of Human Rights, U.S. Bill of Rights, E.U. Constitution, Martin Buber, Bolivian Constitution, Pachamama, Mother Earth Rights, Agenda 21, Sustainable Development, Rio+20]

This week our guest is once again Dr. Stanley Monteith, retired orthopaedic surgeon, veteran Christian researcher and radio host, who joins us to discuss the thesis of his controversial article, "The Population Control Agenda." Arguing that there exists a hidden agenda within elitist circles to reduce the world's human population by over 90%, Dr. Monteith indicates ways in which he believes this agenda is being implemented in the world today.

[Georgia Guidestones, AIDS, Margaret Sanger, Thomas Robert Malthus, An Essay on the Principle of Population, Paul Ehrlich, The Population Bomb, Club of Rome, Mankind at the Turning Point, Barbara Marx Hubbard, Eric Pianka, Ebola Reston, Forrest Mims, Baxter International, Orth-Donau, H5N1, Jacques Cousteau, Prince Philip, Ted Turner, Kissinger Report, National Security Study Memorandum 200, NSSM 200, immunologic adjuvants, aspartame, bisphenol A, BPA, tax-exempt foundations, abortion, overpopulation, underpopulation, neo-Malthusian, Population Research Institute, Steven Mosher, Optimum Population Trust, Sir David Attenborough, Jonathon Porritt, James Lovelock]

Could it be that "the highway to modern environmentalism passed through Nazi Germany"?

We are joined by Pastor Mark Musser, author of the book Nazi Oaks : The Green Sacrifice of the Judeo-Christian Worldview in the Holocaust, who explains how the worldview of the Nazis, which led to the abominations of the Holocaust, was deeply-rooted in the ecological undercurrents of the anti-Semitism, anti-theism, and anti-humanism of the early German green movement. Gathering together the strands of a bewildering number of influences, from Romanticism to existentialism and Social Darwinism, this ecology served to rationalise (in their eyes) and invigorate their racist and eugenicist 'purification' of land and people. But lest we consider all this history, we should note some significant parallels to that ecology within modern-day extreme environmentalism, and remain vigilant.

[Auschwitz, Buchenwald, Treblinka, Hitler, Göring, Himmler, Wilhelm Heinrich Riehl, Richard Walther Darre, Leni Riefenstahl, antisemitism, das Volk, Lebensraum, Blut und Bloden, German Romanticism, Mysticism, German Existentialism, Social Darwinism, Enlightenment, Goethe, Hegel, Richard Wagner, Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, Heidegger, Ernst Haeckel, Henry David Thoreau, Aldo Leopold, Deep Ecology, August Kubizek, Lynn White Jr., Club of Rome, Gaia, Stanley L. Jaki, animal rights, Dauerwald, sustainable development, Jesse Owens, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, higher criticism, population control, bioregionalism]

"Humanity stands at a defining moment in history."

So begins the UN's Agenda 21 document to which most of the world signed up following the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro. That "defining moment" - as promulgated by the UN - was the need for a "global partnership for sustainable development" to address "disparities between and within nations... poverty, hunger, ill health... illiteracy" and "deterioration of the ecosystems on which we depend..." Well-intentioned, we might think. But joining us to warn of its dangers is Michael Shaw, President of Freedom Advocates, who identifies Agenda 21 as the globalist action plan aimed at removing our unalienable rights, reducing human population, subverting national sovereignty by dividing the world into a system of globally-administered city states, and ultimately building an authoritarian New World Order of oligarchical rule.

[Agenda 21, Sustainable Development, Smart Growth, Smart Grid, Wildlands Network, Wildlands Project, Climate Change, Common Purpose, COG, Council of Governments, ABAG, Association of Bay Area Governments, NGOs, non-governmental organisation, ICLEI, International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives, Silicon Valley, unalienable rights, Declaration of Independence, Magna Carta, misprision of treason, city states, United Nations, Universal Declaration of Human Rights, public-private partnership, PPP, Mussolini, economic fascism, corporatism, New World Order, World Government, Bill Gates, Prince Charles, Council for Sustainable Development, population control, surveillance, CCTV]

"A person commits an offence if he— (a) provides money or other property, and (b) knows or has reasonable cause to suspect that it will or may be used for the purposes of terrorism."

(The Terrorism Act 2000, Part III, Section 15, Article 3)

Earlier this year, film-maker and 9/11 Truth activist Tony Rooke was summonsed to court for not paying his TV licence. In his defence, he appealed to the Terrorism Act 2000, arguing that much of the BBC's coverage of 9/11 (and 7/7 - the London Bombings) had been so disingenuous as to serve as a cover-up for the real criminals in each case, and that to have paid his licence fee to the BBC would have been to have committed a much more serious offence under the Act. To discuss the court case, and to share with us the motivation behind his film-making, we are joined by Tony Rooke, who also explains how his Christian faith inspires and sustains his activism.

[9/11,  7/7, London Bombings, Twin Towers, Building 7, BBC, Jane Standley, Philip Hayton, Richard Porter, Operation Northwoods, Operation Gladio, Henry Kissinger, George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Hani Hanjour, Craig Bartmer, depleted uranium, Iraq, The 9/11 Commission Report, NIST, David Chandler, Kevin Ryan, Niels Harrit, Tony Farrell, David Shayler, Adrian Connock, controlled demolition, nanothermite]

This week we are joined by Robert M. Bowman Jnr., Director of Research at the Institute for Religious Research (IRR.org), for an in-depth interview on the history and teachings of the Word-Faith (or Word of Faith) Movement within Christianity. Born out of the "faith-cure" teachings of the late 19th & early 20th Centuries, and developed and popularised in recent decades by flamboyant evangelists and preachers like Kenneth Hagin and Kenneth Copeland, Word-Faith teaching now reaches the homes of millions through TV broadcasts around the globe. Promising health and wealth in the name of Christ, and assuring its followers that they have delegated spiritual power from God literally to speak miracles into their own lives, this unbiblical distortion of Christianity sets unrealistic expectations, and often leads to disappointment, and sometimes even to rejection of Christ.

[Word of Faith, Word-Faith, Health and Wealth, Prosperity Gospel, positive confession, Kenneth Hagin, Kenneth Copeland, Paul Crouch, Jan Crouch, Benny Hinn, E. W. Kenyon, A. J. Gordon, William Branham, Charles Capps, Frederick K. C. Price, Joel Osteen, John Osteen, Latter Rain Movement, Trinity Broadcasting Network, TBN, eschatology, New Age, Faith-Cure Movement, Restorationism, Seed-Faith]

We are joined again by theologian Dr. Martin Erdmann, former Professor of Philosophy at North Greenville University and Director of the Verax Institute in Greer, South Carolina. In this second of two interviews on the subject of Technocracy and the Smart Grid, Dr. Erdmann introduces the Smart Grid, an energy distribution, allocation, monitoring and control infrastructure which is being quietly constructed across the globe, and which threatens to be the long-awaited tool of Technocracy in its utopian dream to forge a perfect world order. But the crucial step will be that we uncritically welcome the Smart Meter into our homes. Replete with enticements, and apparently benign, the WiFi-enabled Smart Meter will eventually communicate with every appliance in the home, always making the most rational and energy-efficient choices based on computer algorithms programmed according to political policies aimed at steadily reducing the power consumption of the monitored populations. But in so doing, it will usher in a world in which citizen privacy, consumer control, and ultimately freedom will be things of the past.

 [Henri Saint-Simon, Auguste Comte, Aldous Huxley, The Perennial Philosophy, Julian Huxley, The Humanist Frame, M. King Hubbert, Howard Scott, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, James Lovelock, Gaia, Smart Grid, Smart Meter, New World Order, IEEE, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, IEC, International Electrotechnical Commission, UNEP, United Nations Environment Programme, Davos, World Economic Forum, American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, Stimulus Package, green religion, organicism, Club of Rome, Internet of Things, IoT, Fusion Centers, Grid Friendly Appliance Controller, James Corbett]

For the first of two interviews on the subject of Technocracy and the Smart Grid, we are again joined by theologian Dr. Martin Erdmann, former Professor of Philosophy at North Greenville University and Director of the Verax Institute in Greer, South Carolina. In this interview, Dr. Erdmann introduces the technocratic movement of 1930s' America under Howard Scott and M. King Hubbert, and traces its intellectual roots to the positivistic, anti-supernaturalist and utopian ideas of the 18th/19th-Century French philosophers Henri Saint-Simon and Auguste Comte. But, explains Dr. Erdmann, Technocracy is far from dead; bewitched by its ideals of a fair, efficient and ecological economy, and now emancipated by the wonders of smart technology, the utopian dreamers of our day are gradually resurrecting Technocracy, and quietly ushering in an Orwellian nightmare of global, totalitarian control.

(Für Zuhörer, die der deutschen Sprache mächtig sind, präsentieren wir hier einen Vortrag von Dr. Erdmann zum Thema „Neues Christentum“ (Henri St. Simons Technokratie), den er auf seiner jüngsten Reise in Europa mehrfach vor einem größeren Publikum gehalten hatte.)

 [Henri Saint-Simon, Auguste Comte, Positivism, French Revolution, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, John Stuart Mill, Edward Bellamy, Robert Owen, Aldous Huxley, Julian Huxley, The Humanist Frame, M. King Hubbert, Howard Scott, thermodynamics, entropy, non-renewable resources, private property, Franklin D. Roosevelt, New Deal, Smart Grid, Smart Meter, George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Karl Popper, Utopia & Violence, New World Order, collectivism, carbon currency]

We are joined by Pete Griffiths of Ex-Scientologists UK for an in-depth interview on the history, beliefs and practices of the so-called Church of Scientology, and on its founder L. Ron Hubbard. Once an active staff member of the Church of Scientology, Pete shares with us the many reasons why he came to reject the organisation and why he now considers it both deceptive and dangerous.

[L. Ron Hubbard, Church of Scientology, Dianetics, Thetan, Engram, Clear, Operating Thetan, Reactive Mind, Ruins, SP, Suppressive Person, PTS, Potential Trouble Source, Disconnection, mind control, psycho-analysis, Aleister Crowley, Freud, Utilitarianism, Oxford Capacity Analysis]

"...it's not easy when you're at 20,000 feet, and your plane is on fire, and people are screaming for their lives, and you have to do an emergency landing... let me tell you, it's not easy... And what happened since is even worse: finding out that your own government did it to you on purpose."

On Christmas Day 2009, Kurt Haskell and his wife Lori were on-board Northwest Airlines Flight 253 from Amsterdam bound for Detroit, on which the so-called "Underwear Bomber", Farouk Abdulmutallab, attempted to set off an explosive or incendiary device. According to the official version of events, this was an Al-Qaeda attack against the United States of America. Joining us to dispute this narrative, is Kurt Haskell himself, who, as a witness to this event, explains why he believes he was in the presence of a staged, false-flag operation, organised by the U.S. itself.

Dr. Paul Craig Roberts joins us to discuss his recent article "Washington Is Insane", in which he dismisses as pure propaganda the claim by the U.S. that Syria's President Assad ordered the use of chemical weapons, thus crossing the "red line" declared by Obama. Indeed the real 'villain of the piece' is Washington itself, or rather the "military-security complex" that controls it. (Subjects include: the NSA, false flag terror and the possibility of economic collapse.)

Dr. Roberts is the Chairman of the The Institute for Political Economy. In a varied career, spanning academia, journalism, business and public service, he has held numerous senior academic positions in universities; was an associate editor and columnist for The Wall Street Journal ; and was appointed by President Reagan as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy during Reagan's first term in office; after which he served as a consultant to both the U.S. Department of Defense and the U.S. Department of Commerce.

[Sarin, Friends of Syria, Supreme Military Council, UN Commission of Inquiry on Syria, Carla Del Ponte, Al-Nusra Front, Jabhat al-Nusra, Al Qaeda, Joint Chiefs of Staff, JFK, Gulf of Tonkin, false flag, propaganda, Bashar Hafez al-Assad, Der Spiegel, military-industrial complex, WMD, R2P, NATO, Eisenhower, NSA, Edward Snowden, Glenn Greenwald, Cardinal József Mindszenty, Libya, Muammar Gaddafi, Pravda, Oliver Stone, The Untold History of the United States, Iranian Revolutionary Guard, Hezbollah, China, Russia, WWIII, Dr. Strangelove, William Kristol]

"When we allow science to become political then we are lost. We will enter the Internet version of the Dark Ages, an era of stifling fears and wild prejudices, transmitted to people who don’t know any better."

(Michael Crichton)

So prefaced is the website of Dr. Tim Ball, retired professor of Climatology at the University of Winnipeg, who joins us for an interview in which he shares with his views on the history of the politicisation of Climate Science.