No Child Left To Their Own Design
31 January 2015

Contrary to popular belief, Education and Schooling are mutually exclusive subjects. This was easy to recognize with the advent of Standardized Testing like the ITBS, more obvious with the creation of No Child Left Behind, and is now difficult to ignore under the auspices of Common Core. The school system in America hasn’t failed – it was designed this way intentionally. The truth is schools don’t teach you anything but how to obey orders. Schools are crippling our population’s potential by artificially extending childhood, first and foremost with the imposed myth that 12-year-olds are children. But history is riddled with evidence to the contrary, from Thomas Edison starting a printing business at the age of twelve, to Thomas Jefferson running a 250-employee operation at the age of twelve, nothing could be further from the truth. Childhood now extends all the way to the age of eighteen, at which point our youth have been conditioned to believe that they may never have to grow up.

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Veterans Against War Porn
7 February 2015

Clint Eastwood’s newest film “American Sniper” has reignited an age-old national debate, pitting “patriots” against “hippies.” Apart from analyzing the tendency of war films to glorify violence, justify racism, and fetishize murder, there are a number of factual errors and historical inconsistencies. The film’s portrayal of Christian dominionism confuses the message of Jesus; the juxtaposition of 9_11 with Iraq invites viewers to make connections that don’t exist; the jingoism encourages movie-goers to assume xenophobic hatred. The book which the film is based on is even worse, fostering anti-Muslim racism while spinning elaborate lies – making claims about former SEAL Jesse Ventura and mass murder in New Orleans that frankly, never happened. Savvy analysts see the divide-and-conquer mentality at play here. Featuring testimony from veterans sickened by “American Sniper” and its effects that you won’t hear anywhere else, this episode is likely to leave you speechless and inspired.

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Sex, Marriage, & Rock ‘n Roll
14 February 2015

St. Valentine was a Roman Priest who defied the Caesar’s order forbidding soldiers from marrying, manifesting today’s Valentine’s day celebration of the love that brings us into lifelong union. There are a great many factors that coalesce into the realization of long-loving and healthy relationships. Although we’re sold flagrant motivators through the mainstream media to purchase the chocolates, greeting cards, and heart-shaped antacids with ‘hug me’ written on them, the advertising industry’s vein attempts to commercialize love will never lessen sex, desire, or attraction. Inevitably our own progressive skills will teach the necessary patience, consideration, trust and creative exploration that lead to life-long happiness. Without diminishing the importance of sex, we emphasize that our cultural sicknesses stem from cultural shaming of our natural desires, and suppression of our true nature, which encourages the proliferation of perversion and violence.

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Paradise for Puerility:
Manufacturing Sexism
21 February 2015

Cuba, China, Iraq and Afghanistan have more women in government than the US. Why is that? With women’s suffrage decades behind us, the popular misconception that gender equality is behind us, persists. But objectification of women in the media has never been more offensive or violent as it is today. Pornographic media sells, but also turns women into objects, undermines humanity, perpetuates stereotypes, and arrests the maturity of both men and women. Very few films feature a female protagonist and films that do often reduce her to the role of finding a man, or playing the “Fighting F@#k Toy.” Meanwhile we tell our boys to “man up,” and “stop with the tears.” As the twig is bent, so grows the tree. This institutionalization of infantilism results in devastating effects in the form of rape, abuse and murders. Then men are demonized and the cycle of pain perpetuates. Mature feminism is not the attempt of matriarchs to gain dominance over patriarchs-the goal is equality once and for all!

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Be True To The Yin Yang Self
28 February 2015

We conclude a 3-part peek into Love, Relationship, Sex, and Gender; Perceptions we impose upon these things and the reality of Our Perceptions from within the prejudice. Today we will touch upon all of these but especially with consideration of the Masculine and Feminine elements that are within us all, seeking balance and creating transformation. Everyone, whether male or female, has Masculine and Feminine Energies. Indeed even sexless entities such as organizations, groups, societies or corporations can display Masculine and Feminine Energy characteristics. Most people develop one type of Energy more than the other. In most societies, in varying degrees, children are encouraged to show only those behaviors associated with the Energy that matches their sex or gender. Women are expected to be more nurturing and less aggressive; men are expected to be strong and to ignore their emotional side. However if only one Energy is honored and developed, we end up lopsided and not whole.

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All Religions Are True
Theosophical Universalism
7 March 2015

Yeshua was not a Christian. Siddhartha Gautama was not a Buddhist. Krishna was not a Hindu. Muhammad was not a Muslim. These men all shared an extraordinary experience of cosmic consciousness and sought to spread a divine message of peace and enlightenment to other fellow Earthlings. But as the centuries progressed these figures were pedestalized. Human kind mistook the messenger for the message resulting in dogmatic intolerance and hideous violence. So some say God was cruel to create so many religions to fight each other. But God didn’t create these wars. Human kind is responsible for much of our own suffering. Gandhi said, “The essence of all religions is one. Only their approaches are different.” So if all disciplines teach peace, why can’t we achieve peace? If the prophets all sat at a table together, would they have any disagreements? Would they approve of all the violence that humans have carried out in their name? Are we living in the now or deluding ourselves with scripture?

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Israelis Against Apartheid
14 March 2015

Monday, 16 March 2015 we solemnly observe the12th anniversary of peace activist Rachel Corrie’s death in Gaza. Crushed to beneath IDF bulldozers, Corrie recognized the situation in Palestine as the greatest human rights crisis on Earth. All of the worst aspects of totalitarianism culminate together in modern Palestine in a shocking combination of the Berlin Wall, Gulag Archipelago, Apartheid, Jim Crow segregation, concentration camps and the fire-bombing of Cologne City. But merely criticizing Israel’s domination of the region frequently results in accusations of antisemitism. Why is it considered anti-Semitic to question the persecution and genocide of our fellow human beings? Why are the Palestinians treated by the Israelis as though they were somehow directly responsible for Hitler’s Holocaust? And why are Jewish peoples who condemn the slaughter of Palestinians colloquially referred to as “Self-Hating Jews?” We wage peace until the day there is harmony in the Holy Lands.

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Water Is Not The “New Oil”
21 March 2015

With global water resources dwindling and the threat of worldwide drought, multinational corporations are buying up water utilities left and right. Monopolized privatization of this vital resource consistently results in hiked rates and the bottling of water for export and sale on the open market. Meanwhile advertising campaigns have convinced the masses bottled water is better despite costing consumers 2,000 times the price of tap, for lower quality. California’s desertification isn’t the only small glimpse into the world water crisis – it is now illegal to collect rainwater in several US States. This all comes to a head as the Carlyle group attempts to sell the water utility of Missoula, Montana; home to the Outer Limits. Shockingly, the man responsible for Bolivia’s water crisis with Bechtel is the man closing the deal in Missoula: Robert Dove. In this episode, we explore how Missoula’s situation is a fitting microcosm for the corporate takeover of water resources everywhere.

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What’s In The Water?
28 March 2015

How many times have you heard or read the phrase “Water Pollution?” The effects of unfettered industrialization have created such devastation that we’ve grown numb to that same old story. Though Baby-Boomers passed the Clean Water Act, hydro-fracking and countless oil spills are just the beginning of industry’s disregard for the most vital resource to all life on this fragile planet. Fertilizers, pesticides and prescription drugs end up in our water, and if that’s not enough, cities deliberately add toxins like chlorine and hexafluorosilicic Acid into the mix. As cancers and countless other previously unknown diseases proliferate to fever pitch proportions, this crisis is becoming impossible to ignore. Switching to bottled water or Reverse Osmosis filtering won’t save us because we absorb most contaminants in the shower. We’ll connect these concerns to the complexities around the Flathead Water Compact as well as the latest news from the front lines of Missoula’s Mountain Water suit.

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Water You Thinking?
4 April 2015

Water isn’t just Blue Gold because resource profiteers stand to become obscenely wealthy by exploiting it. H2O is quite literally one of the most amazing elements in the known universe that we take for granted on account of its apparent abundance. For the same reason many of water’s properties have been completely overlooked on account of its assumed simplicity. New scientific innovation continues to make revelations that challenge our established norms of orthodox scientific dogmas. We shall see how water’s ineffable magic isn’t just polluted by industrial chemicals and radiation, but is diminished by closed pipe systems and negative thoughts. Furthermore, this episode also explores the drought crisis in California, as Governor Jerry Brown has just ushered in unprecedented water restrictions on account of a complete lack of snow pack. We’ll illustrate how this situation was brought about intentionally through GeoEngineering programs and how it may directly effect western Montana.

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Why Are You Filing Income Taxes?
11 April 2015

As April 15th approaches, millions of Americans scramble to file with the IRS. But what if the Supreme Court ruled that a tax on your labor was unconstitutional? What if the 16th Amendment was never legally ratified? What if there is no law requiring the average citizen to file income taxes? If those who file without question condemn so-called “tax dodgers” not “paying their fair share,” where is the outrage directed toward major corporations who pay zero income tax? How did we fund government before this levy was created in 1913? And what if income taxes don’t actually fund the government? Regan’s Grace Commission concluded that, “All individual income tax revenues are gone before one nickel is spent on the services taxpayers expect from government… 100% of what is collected is absorbed solely by interest on the Federal Debt.” We’re joined by three IRS whistle blowers, Sherry Peel Jackson, Joe Banister, and John Turner, and a host of tax experts to answer these difficult questions.

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When Will The Weed Be Freed?
18 April 2015

Voter referendums legalizing cannabis continue to be undermined by legislators seeking to subvert the popular democratic process. Alaska and Oregon have followed the lead of Colorado and Washington, and now the issue heats up in DC culminating in the DC 4/20 protests starting on 4/15. Nixon’s drug war rages on as myths, scare tactics, propaganda and lies continue to proliferate in efforts to maintain corporate hegemony; police unions, private prisons, alcohol and tobacco companies and the pharmaceutical industry are all threatened by the prospect of marijuana legalization, since it will effectively decimate their profits and outright replace the society’s need for them. As waves of Americans awaken many public figures are beginning to realize that if they don’t change their tune, no one will take them seriously ever again. Cannabis isn’t just the most prolific medicine on Earth – it’s your human birth right, and what others do with their minds and bodies is none of society’s business.

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Inner Infinity
25 April 2015

The burgeoning popularity of Buddhism verifies the 8th Century Tibetan prophecy that “When the iron bird flies and horses run on wheels … the dharma will come to the land of the red-faced people” may be unfolding before our eyes. It may seem even more poignant considering the 16th Karmapa’s historic meeting with Hopi leaders in the 1970’s and America’s recent obsession with psychedelia leading naturally toward a study of the dharma. But Buddhism is a tremendously complex subject, with eight primary branches encompassing disciplines such as the Mahayana, Hinayana, Vajrayana, Zen, Dzogchen and Tantra traditions.

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You Don’t Make History By Asking Permission
2 May 2015

Embrace the rebellious roots of May Day in solidarity with European austerity protests, Americans rallies, the Pope’s denouement of gender-based income gaps, and a remembrance of popular uprisings throughout American history that secured such basic rights as collective bargaining, unemployment, and safe working conditions. As we explore this topic, we’re compelled to ask why anyone would willingly take a job. How can we say we live in a free country if our most basic liberties don’t exist in our workplaces? Wobblies revealed to us a century ago that the goal of labor movements is the elimination of exploitative elements from our lives, ensuring that our efforts are not only amply rewarded, but that our day-to-day experience is one of enjoyment rather than meaningless servitude. As history amply proves, we cannot leave such decisions to the ownership class. In this episode, journalist Chris Hedge’s and Economics professor Richard Wolff provide a map for our journey out of austerity.

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Your Education is the Job of a Lifetime
9 May 2015

You don’t need to be a college graduate to appreciate these words of wisdom. These addresses constitute some of the best advice you’ll ever hear, regardless of your present trajectory in life, as espoused by well-known personalities who have come to redefine traditional success in life. Success isn’t the big house with the pool, the fancy car with the sun-roof, or the corner office with the aquarium, since materialism is riddled with the ever widening stress of maintaining material success, which is ultimately empty of meaning or purpose. Herein you’ll hear various commencement addresses from the some of the most inspirational personalities our human family has to offer, to re-calibrate what is really important in life.

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What Would Malcolm Say If He Were Here Today?
16 May 2015

Racism is as alive today as it ever was. We like to pretend it isn’t. After all America has a black president now. But if racism is really behind us, would we be reading in our newspapers about the murder of unarmed black men like Tony Robinson, Freddie Gray, Michael Brown, Eric Garner or Walter Scott? And for every Tony, Freddie, Michael, Eric, and Walter, there are hundreds if not thousands of cases that we never hear about. We only hear about any particular case when the circumstances make it impossible to ignore.