P.I.D. Radio Network

Filmmaker Rob Skiba talks about the use of pop media as witnessing tools, and researcher Chris White, host of Nowhere to Run on the Revelations Radio Network, discusses his new documentary, David Icke Debunked. For more information on The Politics of Religion conference coming to Fort Wayne in April, see the official website.

PFC. BRADLEY Manning has been kept in solitary confinement for most of 2010, allowed only one hour a day out of his cell even though he hasn't yet been tried and convicted of a crime. Is Manning a patsy, a convenient excuse to criminalize investigative journalism and a clampdown on the Internet? See Glenn Greenwald's column on the treatment of Bradley Manning at Salon.com. Also: the UN mulls Internet regulation; a rush of 13s; and Adventures in Synthetic Biology.

THAT'S THE question of the day. Our federal government asserts the authority to tell us what to feed our children (and then do it for us), to buy health insurance for the privilege of breathing, and to assassinate American citizens without due process of law or oversight by Congress or the Judicial Branch. When the president claims the right to kill citizens who pose a threat to national security and then his wife declares fat kids a national security threat, why are we even arguing over who gets to marry who? Also: Obama admits we're in Afghanistan until 2014 at least; Army set to award mega-contract to train Afghan police; LA nuke "a survivable event; and Kosovo leader tied to black market in human organs.

THERE ARE days when the headlines make you wish for Christ's return even more than usual. Today, we discuss the convicted murderer who posts to Facebook from prison, security contractor DynCorp's latest link to the sex trade (read the report by Frontline on Afghan "dancing boys", and watch the Frontline program online free at PBS.org), the bizarre rape and stabbing in Vacaville, California, and the Federal Aviation Administration, which has somehow managed to lose track of who owns a third of the aircraft in the United States. Keep that in mind the next time you're asked to step in front of an airport X-ray machine.

TWO YEARS ago, a BBC cameraman caught a bizarre scene on tape: twin 40-year-old sisters from Sweden walking along the shoulder of the M6 motorway who deliberately ran into traffic when approached by police. This began a bizarre series of events that led to one of the sisters hospitalized after being run over by a truck and the other stabbing a man to death, running from police while hitting herself on the head with a hammer and jumping from a 40-foot bridge onto another roadway! And then last month, 29-year old Australian twins who tried to commit suicide together at a shooting range near Columbine High School in Colorado. Just what is going on here? Also: DHS wants you to spy at Wal-Mart; 13-year-old girl raped and stabbed in California; and judge sides with Virginia against health care reform.

JESUS OFFERED a pretty bleak prophecy for His followers in the end times. Contrary to the feel-good message coming from many pulpits today, Jesus told us others will "deliver you up to tribulation and put you to death, and you will be hated by all nations for my name’s sake. And then many will fall away and betray one another and hate one another." In fact, there are parts of the world where the faithful have faced death for the gospel's sake for nearly two thousand years. Why, then, do so many of us expect the Great Tribulation to be limited to the last seven years before Christ's return? Longtime broadcaster and Bible student Joe Ortiz, author of Why Christians Will Suffer "Great Tribulation", discusses why the church, regardless of the timing of Christ's return, have difficult times ahead.

The Wikileaks release of secret US government documents is a "staged crime scene". So says professional private investigator Doug Hagmann, CEO of the Northeast Intelligence Network. Doug explains why it's simply not plausible that Julian Assange and Pfc. Bradley Manning got their hands on a quarter of a million secret docs without some professional help. Doug also shares what his military and intelligence sources are telling him about that mysterious "contrail" off the coast of Los Angeles a couple of weeks ago. In the second hour, we break the rules of polite company by talking politics and religion. We're joined by Dr. Jim Garlow, pastor of Skyline Wesleyan Church in San Diego and the chairman of Renewing American Leadership, a group founded by former Speaker of the House (and potential presidential candidate) Newt Gingrich. How much energy should Christians put into political efforts to transform society? For more background, check out this episode of The Collins Brothers Unleashed in which they examine the techno-utopian tendencies of Newt Gingrich. That, the Bunker Intelligence Briefing, and your calls.

THE DAY that will live in infamy, to borrow FDR's words, dawned 69 years ago today. We feature a bit of audio from WWII veteran William Harvey of Indianapolis, who was on his way to Sunday school when the bombs began to fall on Pearl Harbor. Thanks to the Indianapolis Star for featuring this video today.Also: Julian Assange turns himself in; New York City launches test "organ preservation unit" program; and Madness on the Motorway.

THE WIKILEAKS story continues to build, even though the more we poke at its roots, the more it looks like something other than a real security breach. Consider: the man who ratted out Pfc. Bradley Manning, Adrian Lamo, is a gray hat hacker who turned Manning in after spending nine involuntary days in California's mental health system for Asperger's Syndrome.Now, we're not disparaging anyone who genuinely suffers from the condition, only pointing out that a loose definition of Asperger's can be applied to almost anyone who was ever described as a geek. (And if that's grounds for institutionalizing someone, then we're a phone call away from being locked up.)Consider also that WikiLeaks' founder Julian Assange is accused of a sex crime in Sweden (not rape, as has been reported, but for something called "sex by surprise" -- i.e., a malfunctioning condom) by a woman who apparently worked with a CIA-linked group in Cuba. And note that Lamo admittedly works for a semi-secret government contractor called Project Vigilant.All in all, this looks like a controlled leak or an intelligence turf war. The question, as always: who benefits?

William H. Kennedy, author of Lucifer's Lodge: Satanic Ritual Abuse in the Roman Catholic Church and Satanic Crime: A Threat in the New Millennium, joins us to discuss the global problem of organized pedophilia. We'll pick up on our discussion of the 1980s Franklin Credit Union pedophile scandal and look at elements of the sordid story that emerged about five years ago. In the second hour, we discuss the book of Genesis with Gary Bates, CEO of Creation Ministries Worldwide and author of Alien Intrusion: UFOs and the Evolution Connection, and why it's important for Christians to take it at face value. That plus NASA's big announcement, Wikileaks' "staged crime scene", and your calls.

RATHER THAN repeat ourselves tonight by doing a show and then another show, we've decided to just take it on the road and feature the hour we were honored to spend as guests on Raiders News Live with our friends, Tom and Nita Horn -- and, of course, the "Wild Man of the Ozarks", Joe Ardis.Tom and company pretty much gave us free rein to discuss today's NASA "astrobiology" discovery (in California lake mud), the proposed Edgar Mitchell/Billy Meier forum, alien disclosure, the alleged Gulf of Aden stargate, transhumanism, pandemics, and our panoptic society. It's a wild hour, and the high point may be Sharon's speculation about why DARPA's X-37B space drone has been orbiting Earth for nine months.

MORE ON self-proclaimed contactee and "prophet" Billy Meier today, along with a look at Dr. Michael Heiser's review of Final Events by Nick Redfern. Mike's take is similar to ours, although much more scholarly: basically, somebody wants the UFO community to believe Christians are fascists bent on world domination.Also: Cancun climate change summit; Al Gore leaves limo running for an hour during climate warmist banquet; and airport scanners see everything except the stuff that actually explodes.

DR. EDGAR Mitchell is reportedly in talks with the US representative of Billy Meieir for a first of its kind public forum with the famed UFO contactee and "prophet". Given that Dr. Mitchell is co-founder of a leading New Age research group, the Institute of Noetic Sciences, we're not surprised.Also: Israel finds natural gas in Leviathan; the government spins Wikileaks; and the stargate under the Gulf of Aden.

DR. EDGAR Mitchell is reportedly in talks with the US representative of Billy Meieir for a first of its kind public forum with the famed UFO contactee and "prophet". Given that Dr. Mitchell is co-founder of a leading New Age research group, the Institute of Noetic Sciences, we're not surprised.Also: Israel finds natural gas in Leviathan; the government spins Wikileaks; and the stargate under the Gulf of Aden.

IT'S EASY for Western Christians to forget that Jesus Christ was the ultimate Jew. This has implications no only for understanding the nature of the gospel, but for end times prophecy. Messianic teacher and lecturer Rabbi Michael Bugg, author of When the Stars Fall: A Messianic Commentary on the Revelation, discusses the visions of the end given to the Apostle John by Jesus Christ in light of the richness of Jewish culture and rabbinic tradition.