Contributors A - D
Mike Adams
Mike Adams is no stranger to traditional Western medicine. The son of a Pfizer contractor and a clinical trial tester for some of America's biggest pharmaceutical companies, Mike grew up using prescribed pharmaceuticals, trusting doctors and believing what the FDA reported was safe and in the best interests of the country. All that would change when Mike was faced with his own personal health emergency, and the pillars of medicine he once trusted came crumbling down before him.
Emboldened by his own experience of health transformation, Mike continues to explore and share the truths of natrual nutrition, disease, health and healing. Over the last several years, he has spent more than 10,000 hours studying the true causes of disease vs. health. With the help of his extensive private research library, Mike Adams has authored more than 1,600 articles on health, interviewed today's greatest pioneers in alternative medicine, and completed dozens of books and special reports on the subject.
Since then, Mike has founded NaturalNews.com, an online news source covering all areas of personal and planetary wellness from nutrition to renewable energy. Here, he’s written thousands of articles and built a following of over 800,000 people across the globe.
Mike has also founded a non-profit organization, The Consumer Wellness Center, an online retail center, Better Life Goods, and the popular publishing company, Truth Publishing. Mike speaks frequently at national and local gatherings like the Amazon Herb Summit and the Raw Foods Challenge in Los Angeles.
Speaking from personal experience and extensive research, Mike has touched the hearts and changed the lives of thousands of people around the world. Adams is a raw foods enthusiast, an organic gardener, and a holistic nutritionist. He eats no processed foods, dairy, sugar, meat from mammals or food products containing additives such as MSG.
Adams has been called "the best health and natural products writer on the scene today" and has openly recommended hundreds of health and green living products without any compensation or kickbacks. He adheres to a strong ethical code and practices the lifestyle he teaches.
Kevin Annett
Rev. Kevin Annett is a community minister, educator and award-winning film maker who lives and works in Vancouver 's downtown eastside. He is a member of the revived Community Task Force into Missing Persons. For more information on this Group, and for a copy of their recent report on which this article is based, contact Kevin at:
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or 1-888-265-1007 (messages). His website is: www.hiddenfromhistory.org
Unrepentant: Kevin Annett and Canada's Genocide
- Winner, Best Foreign Documentary Film, Los Angeles Independent Film Festival, March 2007 - Winner, Best Canadian Film, Creation Aboriginal Film Festival, Edmonton, 2009
Soon to be released feature film, The Diary, based on Kevin Annett's epic struggle to bring to light genocide in Canada - see the trailer at: thediarymovie.com/trailer
Rob & Michelle Avis
Offering a wealth of knowledge and experience from around the world, Rob & Michelle Avis' portfolio includes a three month internship at the Permaculture Research Institute in Australia, a six month sabbatical learning about renewable energy systems in Denmark and off-the-beaten track travels throughout Mexico examining sustainable agriculture practices. They have hands-on experience with numerous concepts including: strawbale buildings, Earthships, passive solar design, wind turbines and solar power & heating but also understand and emphasize the importance of biological systems: soil, water-harvesting, landscape re-hydration, composting, growing food, greywater and biological waste-water treatment. Bringing together mechanical engineering, renewable energy and permaculture systems, their Calgary-based consulting company, Verge Permaculture offers courses and consulting across Western Canada.
David Beattie
David Beattie is a social justice activist and journalist. Born and raised in South Africa, he has lived in Canada on and off since 1988.
Beattie is a regular contributor to The Agora National and a number of Vancouver-based publications, including Megaphone Magazine and the Carnegie Newsletter.
Active with a number of Downtown Eastside-based groups, including the Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users and Pace, Beattie's prime concern these days is the growing rich-poor divide and the polarization of the empowered and the disempowered. Apart from climate change, he says, this is the biggest challenge facing humankind.
Matt Berkowitz
Matt Berkowitz is a coordinator for the Vancouver chapter of the global social organization, The Zeitgeist Movement, the activist arm of The Venus Project. Matt has given several lectures, appeared on the radio and written numerous newspaper articles about subject matter and issues pertaining to the movement, spanning from monetary economics to sociology. He holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from UBC. zeitgeistvancouver.com
Patrick Borden
An ESL teacher by trade, Patrick Borden has called many places home. A lifelong interest in anarchism, and alternative theories of history and science inspire his writings. He is the author of the dystopian novel The Space.
Dana Bowen
Dana Bowen was born on June fifth 1992 in Vancouver, B.C. As an aspiring writer, she began writing concert and CD reviews when she was fifteen years old for a magazine aimed towards high school students across British Columbia. Although still trying to find her claim on the world, Dana has done a lot of volunteer work for environmental activist groups as well as volunteering her articles to other newspapers. Currently she is a recent high school graduate and while working as a barista on the side, she continues to work her way up the ladder to becoming a successful journalist.
Michael Brine
Michael was born in 1935 in Toronto of English and Irish parents and had an extensive career in International banking prior to coming to the Yukon, Canada in 1970.
For a period in the ‘60s before returning to Canada he worked on an organic farm in Somerset which supplied produce to both the London and Bristol markets.
Michael has traveled extensively and lived in other countries and experienced other cultures. Since his arrival in Yukon he has been an active realtor, a lodge owner, a customs officer, promoted alternative health and spoken out on issues that he feels need attention.
In his personal life he has had strong mystical leanings from an early age and has had several “Teachers” throughout his life which have greatly influenced him in his life's journey. He has recently moved back to Whitehorse.
Shawn Buckley
Shawn Buckley is lawyer with expertise in the Food and Drugs Act and Regulations. Mr. Buckley acts primarily for manufacturers of Natural Health Products and has an enviable track record in protecting companies charged by Health Canada. Some of the more notable defences have included:
* obtaining the acquittal of TrueHope Nutritional Support following a protracted Health Canada prosecution;
* obtaining the acquittal of the Strauss Herb Company from 73 charges brought by Health Canada;
* having charges against the Nutraceutical Company (Biomedica) withdrawn after Constitutional Challenges to the New Drug Regulations and the seizure power under the Food and Drugs Act were filed.
Mr. Buckley is also the president of the NHPPA, a non-profit organization dedicated to protecting our access to natural health products. He is involved in the Charter of Health Freedom initiative, and speaks and writes extensively on health freedom issues.
Rob Bunney
"I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious"
Albert Einstien
Rob holds a strong belief in the power of the arts, the power to transform and transcend.
Melba Burns
Melba Burns, Ph.D. has been writing for forty years: books of poetry, film scripts, her own TV show, novels, songs, essays and non-fiction books. And for over 20 years she has led creative writing groups, mid-wifing other people’s creativity. Her most recent book, Romance Your Writer Within & Reawaken Your Passion to Write, will be launched December 12th.
Alicia Charles
Alicia is a Holistic Wellness Practitioner and the owner of Kinkou in Vancouver. Educating people about holistic health and wellness and helping people to achieve their own spiritual enlightenment has been a life-long passion. She hopes to help change people’s level of awareness and help them lead fuller, healthier lives.
Callum Coats
Callum Coats was born in London on the 19th July 1939, but by the age of thirteen he had already seen a great deal of the world. His parents were internationally involved in the Theosophical Society which resulted in long periods in India and other non-European countries. He was at school at Gordonstoun in Scotland, renowned for its enlightened educational ideas, with a final year at its sister Salem School in Germany, and he speaks French and German fluently. In 1967 received a mas- ter's degree in architecture from the Architectural Association in London, practis- ing first in London and then in Queensland, Australia where he now lives.
Callum first heard about the ideas of Viktor Schauberger at the age of 17, but it was not until February 1977 that his mother introduced him to Viktor's physicist and mathematician son Walter Schauberger. Astonished that no material on these ecologi- cally important ideas was available in English, he decided to abandon architecture and devote himself to their study.
Callum spent three years working full-time with Walter at his Pythagoras-Kepler System Institute in Lauffen, Austria, and studying Viktor's archives. He helped revise the translation of Living Water, the introductory work of Viktor Schauberger by Olof Alexandersson (Pub. 1981). In the intervening fifteen years, Callum has devoted all his resources and time to writing Living Energies and to translating, collating and editing Viktor Schauberger's books, articles and letters into the major archive of his work: the 4 vols. Ecotechnology series, subtitled Viktor Schauberger's own writings on Subtle Energies in Nature.
Callum Coats has always had an abiding interest in Nature and natural phenomena. He is an accomplished speaker, and any en- quiries about Schauberger's ideas, and about lectures, should be addressed to him care of the publishers.
Grimm Culhane
Writer, musician, actor, and knitter, Grimm Culhane is a creative dynamo who believes life is not something you sample, it’s something you devour! During a freelance career spanning three decades, Grimm has written extensively about such diverse topics as comic books, sex toys, fiction, film and music and has appeared in the Edmonton Journal, Vancouver Sun, Absolute Underground, Button Magazine and ABORT Magazine.
When he’s not touring with punk bands, performing in such films as Watchmen and The Beast of Bottomless Lake or sharing his knitted creations with members of Shonen Knife, Grimm is interviewing celebrities as diverse as Charlize Theron and Robert Englund as well as musicians like Bootsy Collins, Tom Araya and Frank Black.
Grimm hopes to one day make enough money to afford to blow up Mars… or go to Europe, whichever is cheaper and still in existence.
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Contributors E - H
Paul Elder
A Remote Viewing instructor and Consciousness Researcher at the world renowned Monroe Institute, Paul Elder lives on Vancouver Island and spends his time writing, teaching and speaking throughout the United States and Canada.
Kim Evans
Kim Evans is a natural health writer, photographer, and author of Cleaning Up! The Ultimate Body Cleanse. Deep cleansing has helped her eliminate over a dozen problems in her body - including several that medical professionals had said that there were no solutions for, except long-term drugs. Learn more about cleansing at cleaningupcleanse.com.
Larry Flaxman
Larry Flaxman is a best-selling author, paranormal investigator, public speaker, scientific researcher and screenwriter. He is the author of such popular books as 11:11- The Time Prompt Phenomenon: The Meaning Behind Mysterious Signs, Sequences and Synchronicities, The Resonance Key: Exploring the Links Between Vibration, Consciousness and the Zero Point Grid, The Déjà vu Enigma: A Journey Through the Anomalies of Mind, Memory and Time, and the soon to be released The Trinity Secret: The Power of Three and the Code of Creation.
Larry is currently developing projects for feature films and television, including 19 Hz. – The Movie, and is a regular contributor to TAPS Paranormal Magazine, Phenomena Magazine, and New Dawn Magazine. Known for his expertise in merging scientific methodology with the paranormal, Larry recently appeared on The Discovery Channel’s Ghost Lab sharing his theories on resonance and EVP.
Larry is President and Senior Researcher of ARPAST, the Arkansas Paranormal and Anomalous Studies Team, which he founded in February of 2007. Under his leadership, ARPAST has become one of the nation’s largest and most active paranormal research organizations, with over 150 members worldwide dedicated to conducting research into the paranormal using the most stringent scientific methodology. ARPAST is proud members of the TAPS family (The Atlantic Paranormal Society) from the popular Syfy Channels television show “Ghost Hunters.” Larry supervises a staff of fully trained researchers and over $250,000 worth of top-of-the-line equipment. Widely respected for his expertise on the proper use of equipment and techniques for conducting a solid investigation, Larry also serves as technical advisor to several paranormal research groups throughout the country.
Larry has been featured in dozens of newspapers, magazines and online publications and has been interviewed for news and cable television outlets and hundreds of radio programs, including Coast to Coast with George Noory, X-Zone, Ghostly Talk, The Jeff Rense Show, Eerie Radio, Darkness Radio, Dreamland, Binall of America and Haunted Voices.
Larry is known for his ability to bring highly complex scientific concepts to a mainstream audience and has become one of the most well-respected and seasoned public speakers in the fields of the paranormal, metaphysics and Noetics. His enthusiasm for education and training, and his passion for inspiring the next generation of paranormal researchers to think outside the box, has garnered many requests for special events and seminars. He has spoken at such major events as “DragonCon,” “The Texas Ghost Show,” “Through the Veil” and “History, Haunts and Legends” as well as numerous local and regional seminars and conferences. He is also co-creator (with Marie D. Jones) of ParaExplorers.com, devoted to the exploration of ancient and modern unknown mysteries, and is co-creator of the popular new ParaTracker software program for documenting data from paranormal investigations.
John Gatto
John Taylor Gatto was born in Monongahela, Pennsylvania, a river town thirty-five miles southeast of Pittsburgh where his grandfather, Harry Taylor Zimmer, was the town printer in the days when printers still honored their descent from Peter Zenger. John attended public schools in Swissvale, Monongahela, and Uniontown, and the private Catholic boarding school in Latrobe, all towns in western Pennsylvania.
As a boy he held many jobs: sweeper in his grandad's printing office, snow shoveler, lawn mower, Kool-Ade and comic book salesman, and delivery boy for the Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph and Uniontown Morning Herald, among others. He did undergraduate work at Cornell, the University of Pittsburgh, and Columbia, then served in the U.S. Army medical corps at Fort Knox, Kentucky, and Fort Sam Houston, Texas. Following army service he did graduate work at the City University of New York, Hunter College, Yeshiva, the University of California, and Cornell.
After college, Mr. Gatto worked as a scriptwriter in the film business, was an advertising writer, a taxi driver, a jewelry designer, an ASCAP songwriter, and a hotdog vendor before becoming a schoolteacher. During his schoolteaching years he also entered the caviar trade, conducted an antique business, operated a rare book search service, and founded Lava Mt. Records, a documentary record producer, which won several awards for cover design and content, and which presented the horror of H.P. Lovecraft, dramatized, and the speeches of Richard M. Nixon and Spiro Agnew, exactly as given.
He climaxed his teaching career as New York State Teacher of the Year after being named New York City Teacher of the Year on three occasions. He quit teaching on the OP ED page of the Wall Street Journal in 1991 while still New York State Teacher of the Year, claiming that he was no longer willing to hurt children. Later that year he was the subject of a show at Carnegie Hall called "An Evening With John Taylor Gatto," which launched a career of public speaking in the area of school reform, which has taken Gatto over a million and a half miles in all fifty states and seven foreign countries. In 1992, he was named Secretary of Education in the Libertarian Party Shadow Cabinet, and he has been included in Who's Who in America from 1996 on. In 1997, he was given the Alexis de Tocqueville Award for his contributions to the cause of liberty, and was named to the Board of Advisors of the National TV-Turnoff Week.
His books include: Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling (1992); The Exhausted School (1993); A Different Kind of Teacher (2000); and The Underground History Of American Education (2001) of which the special author's Pre-Publication Edition (2000) is for sale at this Web site.
Gatto's office is in New York City, his home in Oxford, New York, where he is currently at work on a documentary film about the nature of modern schooling entitled The Fourth Purpose, with his friend and former student, Roland Legiardi-Laura. For more information about this film, visit The Fourth Purpose. Gatto has been married for forty years to the same woman, and has two grown children and a cat. He hopes to build a Rural Retreat and Library for the use of families pondering local and personal issues of school reform.
Wray Herbert
Wray Herbert has been writing about psychology and behavioral science for many years. He has been a staff writer and editor for Science News, Psychology Today, US News & World Report, and Newsweek. He is currently a contributor to Huffington Post and Scientific American Mind. His work has also appeared in the New York Times Sunday Magazine, the Washington Post, and many other national publications.
Jesse Lemieux
Jesse Lemieux spent the impressionable years of his life exploring the remaining watershed streams of the upper Nicomekl River in Langley BC. Building upon lessons from childhood, adolescent adventures went further afield taking advantage of Western Canada's vast natural areas. These experiences established a true and unwavering reverence for the natural world within Jesse. Harnessing his keen interest in natural systems, he earned a Bachelor of Science in Biology from the University of Victoria. Jesse Lemieux is motivated by a sincere and genuine concern for the long term survival of the human species and our need for healthy ecosystems.
Upon leaving University he spent the formative years of his life at Misty Meadow nursery. It was at Misty Meadow Nursery, while learning the fundamentals of perennial plant propagation, production grafting, and farm management, that a passion for agricultural systems took root. Following a brief period operating heavy machinery, in the field of environmental reclamation, Jesse went on to Pursue Permaculture full-time.
Jesse's thorough training in Permaculture included two permaculture design certificates (PDC), under the instruction of both Geoff Lawton and Bill Mollison and intensive hands on practice at the Permaculture Research Institute. Jesse's Practical work experience in Permaculture has been undertaken in Western Canada, Australia and the Middle East.
In September 2008 Jesse his wife Tanya founded Pacific Permaculture, a permaculture design and education company. Jesse and Tanya are fully committed to the dissemination of permaculture and its ethics and divide their time between maintaining an organic apple orchard, teaching permaculture, design consulting, and establishing the "Permaculture Research Institute of Canada." They provided world class education and consultancy services.
For a more detailed view of Jesse's permaculture activities check out his CV.
Michael Hey
Michael Hey is a Vancouver writer and filmmaker. His film "Truth Bus" is coming soon to a theatre near you.
Julie Holland
Julie Holland, M.D., is a psychiatrist who specializes in psychopharmacology and a clinical assistant professor of psychiatry at NYU School of Medicine. An expert on street drugs and intoxication states, she was the attending psychiatrist in the Psych ER at Bellevue Hospital from 1996 to 2005 and regularly appears on the /Today Show/. The editor of The Pot Book: A Complete Guide to Cannabis and Ecstasy: The Complete Guide and the author of the bestselling Weekends at Bellevue, she lives in the Hudson Valley.
Contributors I - L
Derrick Jensen
Hailed as the philosopher poet of the environmental movement, Derrick Jensen is author of fifteen books, including A Language Older Than Words, The Culture of Make Believe, and Endgame. He was named one of Utne Reader's "50 Visionaries Who Are Changing Your World." His book Thought to Exist in the Wild won the Eric Hoffer award and was second place in the Animal category of the Independent Press IPPY Awards. In 2008, he led Press Action's "Dynamic Dozen." He writes for the New York Times Magazine, Audubon, and The Sun Magazine, among many others. He holds a degree in creative writing from Eastern Washington University, a degree in mineral engineering physics from the Colorado School of Mines, and has taught at Eastern Washington University and Pelican Bay State Prison. Activist, teacher, small farmer, and leading voice of uncompromising dissent, he has packed university auditoriums, conferences, and bookstores across the nation, stirring them with revolutionary spirit.
Marie Jones
"Marie Jones has joined the list of forward-thinking individuals who are taking us to the next level in both science and our understanding of the universe and our place in it."
-Jim Marrs, author of New York Times Bestseller Alien Agenda.
Marie is a best-selling author, screenwriter, researcher, radio show host and public speaker. She is the author of 2013: End of Days or A New Beginning – Envisioning The World After The Events of 2012, as well as Psience – How New Discoveries in Quantum Physics and New Science May Explain The Existence of Paranormal Phenomena, and Looking For God In All The Wrong Places.
Marie’s next book, due in summer 2011 is "DESTINY VS. CHOICE: THE SCIENTIFIC AND SPIRITUAL EVIDENCE BEHIND FATE AND FREE WILL."
She also co-authored Supervolcano: The Catastrophic Event That Changed The Course of Human History, written with her father, geophysicist Dr. John M. Savino, 11:11 – The Time Prompt Phenomenon – The Meaning Behind Mysterious Signs, Sequences and Synchronicities, and The Resonance Key: Exploring The Links Between Vibration, Consciousness and The Zero Point Grid, with Larry Flaxman, her partner in ParaExplorers.
Their newest book is The Deja Vu Enigma: A Journey Through The Anomalies of Mind, Memory and Time, and the upcoming The Trinity Secret: The Power of Three and The Code of Creation.
Marie is also a screenwriter currently developing Twilight Child, a science fiction feature film and a paranormal film called 19 Hz with Bruce Lucas Productions, and she is developing a paranormal-related television series for tweens. She has also contributed to over 50 inspirational books for PIL/New Seasons, as well as hundreds of articles, essays and stories in magazines, online ezines, newspapers and anthologies, including five Chicken Soup for the Soul books. She is now a regular contributor to TAPS ParaMagazine, and writes for New Dawn Magazine and Phenomena Magazine.
Marie is a co-host on the popular Dreamland radio show interviewing luminaries in the fields of the paranormal, science, unknown anomalies and alternative history. She also spent fifteen years as a field investigator for the Mutual UFO Network in Los Angeles and San Diego. She currently serves as Director of Special Projects to ARPAST, the Arkansas Paranormal and Anomalous Studies Team. She is also highly active in local and regional disaster preparedness, and is a trained CERT member (Community Emergency Response Team). She is also training with the American Red Cross and is a member of several ham radio disaster NETs, including SATERN, MetroNet and QuakeNet. Her call sign is KI6YES. In her spare time, she runs and is training for a marathon.
She recently appeared on the History Channel's Nostradamus Effect series and 30 Odd Minutes television with Jeff Belanger, has been interviewed for dozens of magazines, newspapers and websites, and has appeared on hundreds of radio shows all over the world, including Coast to Coast AM, The Shirley MacLaine Show, The Jeff Rense Show, X Zone Radio, NRP, KPBS Radio, The Conspiracy Show, Beyond Reality with the Ghost Hunters, Dick Sutphen’s Metaphysical Radio, Just Energy, TAPS Family Radio and Paranormal Podcast.
Marie is a highly regarded and popular speaker on science, metaphysics, consciousness and the paranormal and has appeared at major conferences and events. She has also lectured to local and regional meet-up groups, networking organizations and libraries, bookstores and author events.
She currently resides in sunny Northern San Diego County, California.
Harrison Koehli
Harrison Koehli is an editor for the alternative news website sott.net and Red Pill Press redpillpress.com, publisher of Andrew Lobaczewski’s important book, “Political Ponerology: A science on the nature of evil adjusted for political purposes.” An authority on its subject matter, Harrison’s writings deal with the influence of psychopathy on politics. He maintains the website ponerology.com, and is currently writing a book on the subject. He has appeared on Dr. Kevin Barrett’s “Dynamic Duo” radio program and Dustin Cantwell’s “Fane of the Cosmos” and written articles for saferelationshipsmagazine.com. He studied jazz performance and religious studies at Grant MacEwan College and the University of Alberta.
Contributors M - P
Bruce Macdonald
Bruce Macdonald is a Vancouver-born writer and a historical consultant specializing in Vancouver’s past. Despite working mostly as a labourer, in the late 1980s he won a $100,000 university research grant that enabled him to put 10,000 hours of effort into producing on his computer a colourful award-winning history of the city, Vancouver: A Visual History.
Rafe Mair
Rafe Mair was a B.C. MLA 1975 to 1981, Minister of Environment from late 1978 through 1979. Since 1981 he has been a radio talk show host, and is recognized as one of B.C.'s pre-eminent journalists. TheCanadian.org
Jeane Manning
Jeane Manning, co-author of Breakthrough Power: How Quantum-leap New Energy Inventions Can Transform Our World is a long-time researcher of inventions that could replace oil, and their implications for humankind. She authored The Coming Energy Revolution (Avery Publishing Group, New York, 1996, now out of print); Energie (Omega Verlag, Gemany, 2000); and coauthored other nonfiction books including Angels Don't Play This HAARP, co-authored with Dr. Nick Begich. These books are published in six languages and she has been an invited speaker at several energy conferences in Europe.
Jeane began to chronicle the new energy scene in the 1980s. During the years while she was staff writer for a British Columbia regional lifestyle magazine, edited a small town newspaper and held other employment, she used her vacation time to interview scientists in North America and Europe. She has served on boards of directors for a new energy institute that was based in Utah, the Institute for New Energy; ocean energy company Blue Energy Canada; geothermal company Essential Innovations; and the New Energy Movement based in Portland, Oregon.
Her blog is www.ChangingPower.net and book site is www.BreakthroughPower.net
Jim Marrs
Jim Marrs was born in Fort Worth, Texas, on 5th December 5, 1943. His father, a strict Baptist, sold structural steel for a company in St. Louis. Marrs began working as a journalist while at junior high school. After graduating from University of North Texas in 1966 he attended Graduate School at Texas Tech in Lubbock.
After graduating from University of North Texas he joined the United States Army. On his release in 1968 he joined the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. He served as police reporter and general assignments reporter covering stories locally, in Europe and the Middle East. After a leave of absence to serve with a Fourth Army intelligence unit during the Vietnam War, he became military and aerospace writer for the newspaper and an investigative reporter.
Marrs began to take an interest in the assassination of John F. Kennedy. After interviewing several members of the Dallas Police Department he became convinced him that the Warren Commission was a cover-up. Marrs continued to investigate the case and interviewed several important witnesses as well as city and county officials.
In 1976 Marrs began teaching a course about the assassination for the University of Texas at Arlington. He left the Fort Worth Star-Telegram in 1980 and worked as a freelance journalist while continuing to investigate the death of Kennedy. Marrs eventually became convinced that Lee Harvey Oswald had been set up by the government and in 1989 he published Crossfire: The Plot That Killed Kennedy. Published to critical acclaim and reached the New York Times Paperback Non-Fiction Best Seller list in mid-February 1992. It also became a basis for the Oliver Stone film JFK and he served as a chief consultant for both the film's screenplay and production.
Since 1980, Mr. Marrs has been a freelance writer, author and public relations consultant. He also published a rural weekly newspaper along with a monthly tourism tabloid, a cable television show and several videos.
Beginning in 1992, Mr. Marrs spent three years researching and completing a non-fiction book on a top-secret government program involving the psychic phenomenon known as remote viewing only to have it mysteriously canceled as it was going to press in the summer of 1995. Within two months, the story of military-developed remote viewing broke nationally in the Washington Post after the CIA held a press conference revealing the program but putting their own spin on psychic studies. Psi Spies is now available from JimMarrs.com.
In May, 1997, Marrs' in-depth investigation of UFOs, Alien Agenda, was published by HarperCollins. Marrs has been a featured speaker at a number of national conferences including the Annual International UFO Congress and the Annual Gulf Breeze UFO Conference. Publisher's Weekly described the book as "the most entertaining and complete overview of flying saucers and their crew in years." The paperback edition was released in mid-1998 and has since become the best-selling UFO book ever in the United States. Beginning in 2000, he began teaching a course on UFOs at the University of Texas at Arlington.
In early 2000, HarperCollins published Rule by Secrecy, which traced the hidden history that connects modern secret societies to the Ancient Mysteries. In 2003, his book The War on Freedom probed the conspiracies of the 9/11 attacks and their aftermath.
Other books by Jim Marrs includes Inside Job: Unmasking the 9/11 Conspiracies (2004), Terror Conspiracy, The: Provocation, Deception and 9/11 (2006) and Rise of the Fourth Reich (2008)
Cynthia Mckinney
Known for her fiery rhetoric and willing to court controversy, Cynthia McKinney is one of the most widely known members of the United States Congress. She is the daughter of Billy and Leola McKinney, an ambitious couple with high hopes for their daughter. Her father was a policeman, at a time when that was dangerous for an African-American, and her mother was a nurse. In 1972, her family became prominent when Billy McKinney was elected to the state House of Representatives.
In school, she was a capable and strong-willed student and is known for taking after her outspoken father. She attended college in California, graduating with a Masters of Art in Law and Diplomacy from the Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy. Her political career began unexpectedly in 1986 when her father submitted her name as a write-in candidate for state Representative in a district near his. To her surprise, she polled some 40%, and encouraged by her showing, she moved to Atlanta, Georgia and ran in 1988. She won that election, and immediately made an impact for a combative demeanor and left wing views. She was not popular with most of her colleagues, but was secure in her district. In 1992, redistricting created a new, African-American majority district, and she ran. After some difficulty, she won the Democratic primary against more moderate opponents. In 1994, the Supreme Court ruled that her district was an unconstitutional racial gerrymander, and a new district centered on African-American dominated DeKalb County, a suburban county northeast of Atlanta. She moved there and won with little fuss.
Her outspoken ways generated some negative publicity, as did her anti-Israeli, pro-Arab views on foreign policy. She faced a serious challenge in 1996, and was embarrassed when her father called her Republican opponent "a racist Jew", but won comfortably. She won the next two elections without incident, but after terrorists bombed the World Trade Center in New York City, she caused an uproar when she claimed that President George W. Bush had prior knowledge of the impending attacks. In 2002 she was challenged in the Democratic primary by DeKalb County Judge Denise Majette, who attacked McKinney for frequent foreign travel in office and accused her of ineffectiveness. McKinney and was soundly defeated. Her father was defeated that same year, after 30 years in the state legislature.
Her political career seemed to be over, but in 2004, Majette ran unsuccessfully for the U.S. Senate. McKinney sought to return to Congress and succeeded. In the beginning of her new term, she kept a low profile and managed to avoid controversy. However, in early 2006, she made negative headlines again. When a Capitol Hill security guard didn't recognize her and blocked her from entering Congress, she struck him with her cell phone and cursed him. She generated criticism around the country and embarrassed her own party's leadership. After initially accusing the guard of racism, she backed down and apologized. However, the incident just reminded her constituents of why they had rejected her before.
In the 2006 Democratic primary runoff, she lost to DeKalb County Commissioner Hank Johnson by an even larger margin than she had lost to Majette in 2002. This appears to be the end of her career in elected office.
Dan Merchant
One of the founders of Agora and part time investigative journalist, Dan has a passion for exposing corruption and getting to the truth of the story. He is driven by this passion to revive independent fearless media, which in the past held our politicians in check, and to provide people with an unbiased view of the world. In today's media climate, spin and partisanship permeate everything we see and hear; carefully constructed to control and manipulate the receiver for the benefit of corrupt systems, governments, corporations and individuals.
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Kevin P. Miller
Kevin P. Miller is an international award winning Writer, Producer and Director whose films Let Truth Be The Bias, The Promised Land, and more have won numerous international Film and Television awards. His latest is called A Question of Sovereignty. Two-time Academy Award winner Paul Haggis called Miller's 2008 documentary Generation RX "a powerful and often chilling eye-opener." He is also featured in "The Dangerous Man," a book by Karen Sawyer. A "Best-of" blog is also available at www.KevinMiller.com
Walker Morrow is a BC-based freelance writer and blogger, and has been involved in a variety of blogs and writing projects over the years. Any comments or hate-mail should be directed to
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, and feel free to hit him up on Twitter @wmorrow1.
Garth Mullins
Garth Mullins is a writer, activist and three-chord propagandist in East Vancouver.
Andrew Nichols
Andrew is the owner of Permanent Records. He is a multi-instrumentalist and vocalist, as well as a midi master and quick composer. As a long time Avid/Digidesign Protools user, his editing skills are top notch and his restoration skills round out his skill set - skills learned through many years of both real-world experience and independent study.
He likes spending his free time doing everything from kayaking to playing video games, and has a fondness for frisbee. If he's taking it easy, most times you can find him with a guitar in his hands.
Dee Nicholson
Winnipeg-born Dee Nicholson describes herself as a “Truth Seeker". She takes pride in her special ability to see through propaganda and paradigms, and wields her pen like a sword for our rights as Canadians and part of the human family.
The author of two books, she is a degreed metaphysician, Reiki Master, and life coach, as well as an activist for human rights, especially the right to choose our food, medicine, and health care.
Today finds Dee delving into the real nature of the health care system world-wide, and exposing the fist of controls tightening around our health freedoms, notably through the World Health Organization’s Codex Alimentarius Committee. She was one of the first in the health freedom movement to point to Canada’s expanding loss of sovereignty and ultimate vulnerability to regulations set by foreign, unelected committees of her trade group memberships.
Dee is the National Director of Communication for Freedom in Canadian Health Care, which is a charter group member of Canadians for Health Freedom. She is a frequent blogger on the site, offering commentary on a wide range of topics.
Amanda O'Keefe
Born in New Jersey, 1986, Amanda O’Keefe is an artist currently living and working in the Northeast US.
Her interest in creation stems from the idea of art as a tactile communication that elicits psychological and perceptual discoveries. The diverse processes of her work involve a metamorphosis of material, structure, and imagery; exploring aspects of tension that lie between beauty, fragility, aggression.
In papermaking she found a meditative form of experimentation that deals with the decomposition and reformulation of organic matter. This interest complements her printed and drawn imagery: usually abstracted or fractured; inspired by biological, mechanical, and personal matters of subject. She integrates three-dimensional forms into some of her works, structures with which various stretched materials develop symbiotic relationships. She continues to explore manners of constructed material evolutionism, and the influence that layers, translucency, and form have upon a given environment.
Jonathan Talat Phillips
Jonathan Talat Phillips grew up in the Colorado Rockies. He has worked for The September 11th Fund, served as a columnist for Music for America and spearheaded the activist media group, Greene Dragon, where he appeared in international media such as CNN, MSNBC, ABC, Time, and on the cover of New York Magazine. After experiencing a number of mystical encounters, kundalini awakenings, and “miraculous” healings, he turned his focus towards expanding consciousness. He is one of the founding members of Evolver LLC, serving as senior editor of the leading web-magazine for transformational culture, Reality Sandwich, and as director for Evolver.net, a social network for "conscious collaboration." He coordinates the Evolver Regionals program, which now has over forty cities hosting monthly "Spore" events. He gives “Electric Jesus” presentations, revealing how early Christians utilized energy for healing and spiritual evolution, and he is the creator and director of The Ayahuasca Monologues: Tales of the Spirit Vine. Jonathan is trained in chi healing and Bioenergetic Therapy from the Connecticut Healing Institute. He is a Reiki Master, an initiate of the International Sufi Order, and founder of the NY Gnostics, and leads Energy Medicine workshops and retreates. He has a private energy healing practice in NYC. To schedule a session, workshop, or retreat, email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Lindsey Pinto
Lindsey Pinto is the Communications Manager of OpenMedia.ca. She aspires to put Canada on the map as a leader in net neutrality, fair copyright, and the effective use of independent media for political communication. Her education from Simon Fraser University’s School of Communication, and her experience in Marketing and Communications at Rick Hansen Wheels In Motion, have served to prepare her to play a role in establishing an open, accessible, participatory media environment.
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Contributors Q - T
Aleksandra Rea
Aleksandra Rea is the coordinator for the United Nations World Summit for Sustainable Development for Canada, also known as Rio+20. She is a young adult activist in social, environmental and economic change, and organizer and leader of non-profit groups with the same focus. By day Aleksandra is a special eduction instructor with Community Living Society where she advocates for the disability movement.
Paul Craig Roberts
Paul Craig Roberts [email him] was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury during President Reagan’s first term. He was Associate Editor of the Wall Street Journal. He has held numerous academic appointments, including the William E. Simon Chair, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Georgetown University, and Senior Research Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University. He was awarded the Legion of Honor by French President Francois Mitterrand. He is the author of Supply-Side Revolution : An Insider's Account of Policymaking in Washington; Alienation and the Soviet Economy and Meltdown: Inside the Soviet Economy, and is the co-author with Lawrence M. Stratton of The Tyranny of Good Intentions : How Prosecutors and Bureaucrats Are Trampling the Constitution in the Name of Justice. Click here for Peter Brimelow’s Forbes Magazine interview with Roberts about the recent epidemic of prosecutorial misconduct.
Becky Russell
Becky grew up in northern B.C. and is now a student of holistic nutrition in Vancouver. She writes, performs and has recorded music as “sober becky”. She exists preferably in the presence of friends and unpatented, non-genetically modified flora. In the next few years she hopes to study more, grow mostly edible plants and help the bees. Becky is a big fan of Propagandhi, hedgehogs and plankton and is not a big fan of violent police officers or the G8 and G20. Hopefully she will write for the Agora again in the future and meanwhile accomplish a few more things so that next time she can upgrade to a more impressive biography.
Dr. Sherri J. Tenpenny
Dr. Sherri J. Tenpenny is a board-certified osteopathic medical doctor in Cleveland, Ohio. She is widely regarded as one of the world’s most knowledgeable and outspoken physicians on the negative impact vaccines can have on health. Her book, Saying No to Vaccines, addresses vaccination issues facing children and adults. She is a contributing author to several books, including the best-selling, Vaccine Epidemic: How Corporate Greed, Biased Science, and Coersive Government Threaten Our Human Rights, Our Health and Our Children.
Dr Tenpenny is also a recognized expert on many topics within the field of Integrative Medicine. She speaks frequently on breast health, women's hormones, and natural approaches to thyroid and adrenal conditions. Dr. Tenpenny is a regular columnist for TheAgoraNational.ca, NewsWithViews.com and NaturalNews.com. Her DVDs, books and materials are available www.DrTenpenny.com. To learn about her medical clinic at www.TenpennyIMC.com
Brock Tully
In 1970, Brock Tully bicycled 10,000 miles throughout Canada, U.S., and Mexico. He now tours internationally as an inspirational speaker, and has written four Reflections books (over 140,000 copies sold). Brock was a college football and basketball coach, drug rehabilitation counselor and recreation therapist. He has since ridden his bicycle twice more around North America to raise awareness for a kinder world, organized the annual World Kindness Concert, and co-founded the Kindness Foundation of Canada. Through his books, music, magic, and juggling, he hopes to touch hearts and leave us thinking, smiling, and caring more!
Garth Turner
Most Canadians know Garth Turner. They have followed his multifaceted career as a communicator, author, lecturer, columnist, TV personality, entrepreneur, federal MP, cabinet minister and populist.
Garth Turner's career expertise lies in business, personal finance, real estate and taxation. He's authored 12 best-selling books, lectured extensively across the country, hosted Canada's most-watched business television show, and written a syndicated newspaper column carried in scores of cities.
His latest book, ‘Money Road’ will be published in February, 2010. Recent bestsellers include ‘Greater Fool’ (2008) and ‘After the Crash’ (2009). He writes an enormously popular daily blog on real estate and economics at GreaterFool.ca.
Garth is also an honours graduate of the Canadian Securities Course, has extensive training in the financial industry and has been heard by tens of thousands of Canadians eager to learn his strategies and gain his market insights..
His entrepreneurial spirit has led him to start many businesses, from the country's largest independent producer of network television programming, to the restoration of heritage buildings, book and newspaper publishing and in the hospitality industry, creating a host of jobs in our vibrant small business sector.
Garth Turner has twice served as a Member of Parliament in Canada's House of Commons. He was the country’s federal Minister of National Revenue, ran for national leader of the Progressive Conservative Party, has been Special Advisor to the Leader of the Opposition, chairman of several influential Parliamentary Committees and famously stood up for the need for MPs to report to the people, not a political party.
Garth's volunteer work has included serving as a National Director of the Sierra Legal Defence Fund , which fights to uphold environmental legislation, and as a national spokesperson for the Alzheimer Society of Canada
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Aaron Turpen
Aaron Turpen is a father, professional writer, political activist, and liberty advocate living in Wyoming, USA. He writes for several websites and publications on subjects including natural health, science-based alternative medicine, the false left-right political paradigm, and much more. An advocate of an informed populace working locally to make world change, Aaron believes that sustainability of culture and resources can only happen if people think and act locally to do so - both in their personal lives and their community.
Mr. Turpen's professional career has spanned several industries and subjects. He has worked hands-on in various trades, has been an IT systems administrator and developer, has spoken before groups on subjects varying from online business interests to political activism, and has testified before the United States Senate Judiciary Committee.
Aaron currently works from home as a writer and stay-at-home father.
Contributors U - Z
Naomi Wolf
Naomi Wolf is a political activist and social critic whose most recent book is Give Me Liberty: A Handbook for American Revolutionaries.
