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This week the United States Supreme Court heard arguments in the Hobby Lobby case regarding Department of Health and Human Services requirements that abortifacient contraception be covered by healthcare plans provided by Christian businesses to their employees Attorney Erin Mersino is the Thomas More Law Center www thomasmore org Senior Trial Counsel who attended arguments this week Then on to a spirited conversation with Benjamin Ryberg from the Lawfare Project www thelawfareproject org to see how well freedom of speech is doing in its battle with political correctness Finally it's time to re-examine why hard questions must be asked about

Amid much speculation about Malaysian Airlines Flight and the tragedy for family members of the passengers John's boralogue analyzes the hard truth about the potential of using a hijacked airliner for transporting an EMP device or other WMD device Then we'll move to an interview with airline pilot Keith Thompson who has spent many years piloting Boeing aircraft across the Atlantic How exactly is such a journey accomplished safely and how does air traffic control ATC keep informed of the plane's position and activities In the midst of geopolitical tensions it seemed like a small story this week but it

Time for a Round Table program today We'll jump back into geopolitics next week since the world appears to be stably unstable right now For a long time the subject of things New Age was in great vogue A lot of books were issues on the subject So was it just a passing fad or did all of those ideas originating in Eastern mysticism and the occult go somewhere Yes they did Into mainstream thinking and into Christianity Let's find out how and where Today's round table participants are Caryl Matrisciana www caryltv com author of Wide is the Gate

The media have been swamped with reporting from Ukraine and the latest crisis but much of it seemed to lack insight John's extended boralogue attempts to isolate the geopolitical issues revolving around Russia's intrusion into that country Then we'll examine of all places ongoing violence in the Sudan and South Sudan Why in the midst of everything is this important Because the United States pushed the creation of South Sudan but has turned its back now that its attention has been drawn elsewhere The parallels to the rhetoric of the Israel Palestine peace process are obvious especially when international guarantees

Today's program continues the geopolitical thread we began a few weeks ago John's extended boralogue frames the show by explaining why socialism is a warm-weather political sport where climate change drives human activity not the other way around The Obama administration has telegraphed to the world that it has little intention of being the world's policeman any more and -- surprise surprise -- all the world's bullies are lining up to claim turf Bill Gertz www gertzfile com returns to the program for a survey of the chaos that has happened since the current administration began to display weakness Shifting

Here we are years since the beginning of World War I the great paradigm shift that created the modern Middle East This is a thread we're pursuing for an extended period this year on the show John's extended boralogue starts with an in-depth analysis how the Middle East arrived where it is today beginning with World War I and the explaining the new paradigm shift we seem to be passing through The contrasting similarities between then and now are striking We hear frequently that Israeli settlements in the West Bank are an impediment to peace and in violation of international

There has been so much disillusioned commentary about the recent Ken Ham Bill Nye evolution-versus-creation debate that it's time to set things straight First John's boralogue frames the issue by explaining how a debate is supposed to work and reminds listeners that one debate does not definitively settle a controversy A successful debate relies on good participants and proper framing of issues Then we'll target specific areas where neo-Darwinism is in serious trouble namely in the the origin of information contained in living cells These problems are acknowledged at the theoretical level but denied at the pop science level and

John's boralogue begins the program by examining various methods by which words become weapons in the political arena which are geared to achieve political outcomes rather than to do what is right or arrive at the best option in an issue Truth simply isn't the issue Then Dr Timothy Daughtry Ph D author of Waking the Sleeping Giant joins the program for an in-depth conversation about how hard-core progressives use language as a weapon and how these linguistic assaults can be defused Finally a number of listeners have asked us to examine the new phenomenon of bitcoins so today we're

We've often discussed the potential danger of EMP attacks but what if terrorists could get the same result more easily by using a cyber attacks to collapse our economic institutions or power grid instead Kevin Freeman www secretweapon org is author of Game Plan How to Protect Yourself from the Coming Cyber-economic Attack Secularists have been very busy trying to push religion and unfavorable worldviews out of the marketplace of ideas simply by shifting definitions and putting arbitrary walls up between disciplines Sadly reality can't be divided that way Professor Mary Poplin is author of Is Reality Secular She demonstrates

Creationist Ken Ham and evolutionist Bill Nye will debate each other February in what may well become the evolution vs creation debate of the century But already secularist and atheist voices are saying this debate shouldn't even take place This is in reality a logical fallacy called begging the question Why is it secularists who claim to be following logic compared to religionists are so willing to reason erroneously just to prevent a free exchange of ideas John's boralogue analyzes this dangerous phenomenon in the secular academic world We'll spend a large part of the program asking the hard constitutional

John's boralogue kicks off the show with an extensive examination of the profound paradigm change that has occurred in the Middle East since the onset of the Arab Spring This puts us in the post-post-Oslo peace process period the key to which is a collapse of an entire century of pan-Arabism followed by the reemergence of regional ethnic and religious identities This places Christians in the region in severe difficulty Then we'll pursue this thread by means of a conversation with former Afghani businessman Nasir Shansab www shansab com author of Silent Trees A Novel of Afghanistan to examine why

Listeners want more round table discussions so we'll produce a lot more of these in Hey Let's start today During the holiday break there was much flap one more time over global warming due to an Antarctic expedition becoming stuck in the ice and the circumpolar vortex causing a huge cold wave to invade much of North America So why can't we get beyond the tired worn-out illogical arguments the warmists emit like CO emissions Perhaps it has something to do with the media's ignorance of the origins and background of the entire movement Our round table guests today are

John's boralogue begins the first program of the new year by re-examining the crisis window - to see if it's still potent sliding a bit or could even be triggered by events this year Then as part of our geopolitical trends thread it's time to review the entire push towards globalism which we've covered for years here on the program Ian Wishart is author of Totalitaria www investigatemagazine co nz where he maintains George Orwell was right about everything except the date We'll see where the internationalists are taking us this year As progressives have wanted to see a single-payer

Happy New Year everyone Last program of the year John's boralogue takes the controversy surrounding the A amp E program Duck Dynasty and shows from a logical perspective how the entire process of political correctness is riddle with illogic and intolerance Today we're starting a multi-part thread on geopolitical trends for Today's program features an extended conversation with Don McAlvany from the McAlvany Intelligence Advisor about how he vision of the world in

John's boralogue examines the track record of the Federal Reserve Bank on its th anniversary this weekend pointing out that it was at the center of most of the major financial crises of the last century even though it always managed to dodge accountability Then we'll rebroadcast parts of our interview with G Edward Griffin about his classic work The Creature from Jekyll Island Contrasting what Mr Griffin said years ago with the events of the crash provides much insight as to why we're currently in trouble When you make changes in the foundations of a country even for a