A Better World - 10/10/11

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Today's radio show is a Roundtable on the subject of Consciousness & Money. Mitchell is joined today by two professionals who have been dealing in these two domains for decades.

Timothy Karsten, with a law degree from USC Law Center & a degree in Political Economics & International Relations from Berkeley, has been working with business and non-profit leaders, wealthy individuals and families to help them challenge limited beliefs in their roles as cultural and civic leaders and stewards of wealth, especially related to business, philanthropy, economic, and environmental sustainability. 

Timothy has been a student of philosophy as well as the most recent advances in physics and brain science to better understand the complex interaction of human potential. Timothy is also the author of Destination Freedom Newsletter. 

Mitchell is also joined today by Stuart Valentine, President of Centerpoint Investment Strategies & who is an active participant in the Socially Responsible Investment (SRI) Movement. Stuart is involved in asset management, deal structuring & placement for Green Private Equity.

Based in Fairfield, Iowa, home of the Transcendental Meditation global movement and Maharishi University of Management (MUM), Stuart has been a practitioner of the TM Siddhis program for 30 years. He serves as adjunct faculty in the MUM business department and an active member in the meditating community.

Stuart is also Co-Director of The Sustainable Living Coalition (SLC), a non-profit whose mission is to educate & demonstrate workable models in sustainable living. A graduate of the Evergreen State College’s Renewable Energy Systems program in 1982, Stuart also earned his MBA from the Maharishi University of Management in 1986.

Coming to understanding of how to transform business from a destructive to a constructive force for good, how profit can be measured in multiple ways (triple bottom lines) and not just money, and bringing awareness in a deep way to our business life and monetary transactions is the subject of today's show.

A Better World - 10/03/11

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Mitchell's guest today is a leading world expert & authority on GMO's, genetically-modified organisms, best-selling author of Seeds of Deception & Genetic Roulette, Jeffrey Smith.

Jeffrey has appeared on several national TV shows, including recently, the Oz Show and this month, A Better World TV, in honor of October as Non-GMO Month. If you do not yet understand the scientifically-verified dangers of genetically-modified foods & seeds to human health or the entirety of the entirety of the biological gene pool, tune in to today's show. Included in the interview will be suggestions of actions you can take to demand labeling as well as letting government & corporations know whether, after listening to today's show, whether you want these available as a "food choice" at all, or should they be banned & rendered illegal due to their proven dangers? You'll also be directed to a free Non-GMO Shopping Guide.

A Better World - 09/26/11

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Today's show will be discussing the demonstrations taking place on Wall St. that are being virtually ignored by the mainstream media despite there being anywhere from 2-9,000 people there, now entering its second week. Mitchell will also discuss the Call to Action regarding the FDA's attempt to subvert standing legislation which protects Americans' access to nutritional supplements. 

Last, we'll look at the area of hydro-fracking again and reference to the importance of reinstating Glass-Steagall, as we've discussed numerous times on this show. The show will educate and then elevate us into action.

A Better World - 09/19/11

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The first half of today's show will continue the theme of the FDA's current effort to subvert standing legislation which protects our access to nutritional supplements. To stop this madness, we need an enormous public outcry immediately, or forever hold our peace. In this light, a member of the Alliance for Natural Health will be joining Mitchell on the air to discuss this & to give you a clear Call to Action.

The second part of today's show, long-time colleague & friend, the Founder & Board Chair of We, The World, Rick Ulfik, will be speaking about11 Days of Global Unity, which we're in the middle of right now, with events occurring all over NYC and globally. Rick is also a Principal Coordinator of the WE Campaign and Co-Founder and Principal Organizer of 11 Days of Global Unity Sept. 11-21, an annual convergence of more than 700 associated events in over 60 countries around the world launched by We, The World in 2004.

 

Rick also co-produces Visual Voices a TV Series Co-Sponsored by We, The World which was originally featured on the Dish Network and available in 15 million homes. Rick organizes and promotes scores of events and other better world activities, large and small, every year. He is also an award-winning composer, musician (keyboards), songwriter and sound design specialist who, over the last 30 years, has written, produced, arranged and/or performed music for ABC TV, NBC TV and CBS TV, the Olympics, feature films, & major recording artists including Queen Latifah, Phoebe Snow, Carlos Santana, Judy Collins & Bernadette Peters.

A Better World - 09/12/11

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Monday, 6pm EST, Sept. 12, 2011:Today's show is dedicated to two vitally important subjects: first is our covering the FDA's attempt to de-rail legislation that protects our right to nutritional supplementation. If the FDA, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Monsanto & Big Pharma Inc., would, in effect, define nutritional supplementation as drugs, thus limiting its availability only through physicians. Next is lettuce and tomato!  To discuss this today is health advocacy lawyer and founder of www.citizens.org, Jim Turner.  Jim has been involved for decades in challenging the FDA on numerous points as they uphold Big Pharma over their mandate, which is to provide consumer protection.

If we do not defeat the FDA’s efforts here, this would position us much like Europe, where Codex was recently passed and now, after a long thousand + year tradition of natural medicine, herbs and homeopathy, Europeans cannot access these simple remedies except through a doctor.

This is a call to action: we must barrage the phone lines of our representatives with our demand that this madness be stopped (seewww.abetterworld.net for specific language and phone #'s.)Immediately or forever hold our peace.

Second, in honor of the 10th anniversary of the pulverization of the WTC, Mitchell will speak with 9-11 Truth facilitator & leader, Les Jamieson from Brooklyn, NY who has studied the alternative research into 9/11 since November, 2001. Les has attended 9/11 Commission hearings, including those by the NIST investigation into why the buildings collapsed, which has given him an up close realization of the depth and scope of the official cover-up. 

Les has been central in planning several large 9/11 symposia around the country and here in NYC. He was a main organizer for the 3-year long film series at St. Marks Church on Sundays in New York's east village. Next, Les was a leading organizer for the NYC 9/11 Ballot Initiative which sought to empower the voters of New York City to call for the establishment of a new, independent investigation of 9/11. Those who have not scrutinized the subject but just accepted the official version will have the opportunity to understand what happened from a whole new point of view, based on evidence and science, not belief system or political persuasion.

A Better World - 09/05/11

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REPEAT PROGRAM: 08/22/11

A Better World - 08/29/11

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Today's guest and show will remain a mystery until "the day of"....on one hand, I'm far out of NYC in the boonies of British Columbia and on the other, we don't know what may happen regarding Hurricane Irene in NYC this weekend, so stay posted to www.abetterworld.net for updates.

A Better World - 08/22/11

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The FDA is Still in the Way 

It's so wild--we are living our lives, enjoying them, struggling with them, dealing with the ebb and flow, the ups and downs, the call to center and authenticity which is the process of daily life itself. It's bumpy, harry, messy, sad, happy, clear, cloudy and anyone honest with themselves is a weave of numerous feelings, emotions, thoughts and ideas daily. While we are busy with our tasks at hand, at the job, in the family, in the relationship, we are also seeking, in our own ways, to create a better life for ourselves and those around us in our varying orbits and spheres of influence. And while we are busily engaged, there are corporations who are buying politicians, members of the FDA and others, to control our access to our choices of nutrition and even food.

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A Better World - 08/15/11

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Monday's show begins with film-maker/director William Arntz, whose first major film was What The Bleep Do We Know? nd E. Raymond Brown,a visionary African-American author, director, actor, producer, musician, lecturer, and workshop facilitator. He has studied somatic, archetypal and aboriginal psychology, Taoism, shamanism, metaphysics, quantum theory, transformation facilitation, geo-politics and pan-Africanism. Ghetto Physics is his first cinematic work.

William Arntz' background prior to film-making was as a research laser physicist who developed a highly successful software program. Having entered a spiritual path, his life began to take a series of wonderful and wild turns. What The Bleep went on to become a global phenomenon with well over 100 million viewers worldwide. Ghetto Physics, partnered with E. Raymond Brown, is his next major film.

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A Better World - 08/08/11

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Today's guests are the co-authors of Climate Capitalism: Capitalism in the Age of Climate Change, L. Hunter Lovins & Boyd Cohen. Hunter, with her then husband, Amory, founded The Rocky Mountain Institute in Aspen, CO., one of the country's leading non-profit "think & do tank", and has gone on to found and become president of Natural Capitalism Solutions, a consulting co. to some of the largest companies in the world. Boyd Cohen is CEO of CO2IMPACT and former professor of sustainable entrepreneurship in Spain, Costa Rica and Canada, and continues a adjunct professorship. One of Boyd's projects is working with indigenous peoples in Bolivia and now Columbia, re-educating them about brick-making and marketing so that they may be more efficient, sustainable and profitable. Tune in to learn about what some of the largest companies in our country--and world--are doing to increase energy efficiency, green thinking and sustainability---you'll be pleasantly surprised.

A Better World - 08/01/11

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On today's show, Mitchell Rabin speaks about the pressing news of the day, from the environmental pollution threatening our ver lives to the mass insanity that has gripped Washington, but with a most-needed sense of humor, along with the silver-lining of our world, filled with people doing great things to promote sustainability and harmony with our planet. There will likely be lines open for call-ins as well.

A Better World - 07/25/11

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Today's guests, internationally-known social scientists, Drs. J.J. & Desiree Hurtak. J.J. has been internationally recognized for his extraordinary book, The Keys of Enoch. Their current work involves the Academy of Future Science and lecturing/consulting across the world to governments regarding pressing environmental and social issues, and their solutions. James and Desiree Hurtak, Ph.D., MS.Sc. are also and founders of The Academy for Future Science which is also an NGO. They recently returned from Japan where they were working with scientists and journalists. Dr. J.J. Hurtak is author of twenty books and co-author with physicist, Russell Targ, of the publication End of Suffering. He holds two Ph.Ds, one from the University of California, and one from the University of Minnesota. In the 1980s and 1990s he was Director of LASERTECH in Brazil which developed lasers for industrial applications and for the study of rapidly changing environmental conditions particularly in the study of deforestation and soil conditions in the Brazilian farmlands and throughout the Amazon. 

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A Better World - 07/18/11

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Mitchell's guest this evening is centenarian pianist, Christian Scientist, Lillian Schwabe. - Having studied piano at age 7 with the famous Russian composer Leo Ornstein, and later at the Adamant Music school in a special class of 12 New Yorkers. She entered at NYU at age 16 to study English with the famous Thomas Wolfe. She studied piano with Edwine Behre, and others, consummating in a recital at one of the stages at Carnegie Hall in 1947. In 1922 she became a founding member of Megegan Colony, an anarchist community north of New York City who were International Workers of the World. Lillian now lives in Greenwich Village and works full time as a Christian Science Practitioner. Fully engaged and continuing to significantly contribute to the world, Lillian turns 101 on August 10. Today's show will focus on the power, art and science of Christian Science as a healing modality and a way of life.

A Better World - 07/11/11

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Today’s show will be a Mindfulness Roundtable with the backdrop of the profound psychological and spiritual teachings of the extraordinary writer, and in his own words, Teacher of Dance, G.I.Gurdjieff. One of the teachers at the Gurdjieff Foundation, and author of The Forgotten Language of Children, Lillian Firestonewill be Mitchell’s guest.  Lillian is a long-time writer, educator, traveler and student of “The Work”, of Gurdjieff.

The second member of the Roundtable is the Executive Editor of Parabola Magazine,Tracy Cochran. Tracy’s articles & reviews have appeared in The New York Times, theBoston Globe, the Boston Review, O: The Oprah Magazine, New York Magazine, Publishers Weekly, Tricycle, Psychology Today &is the co-author of the bookTransformations. Both guests today have been long-standing students of Gurdjieff and the wisdom traditions East and West.

A Better World - 07/04/11

REPEAT SHOW: Re-broadcast of the 06/27/11 program.

A Better World - 06/27/11

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Mitchell's guest today is the renowned Pulitzer-prize, best-selling author and journalist Chris Hedges. His latest book, The World As it Is: Dispatches on the Myth of Human Progress, is the primary topic of today's show. Chris Hedges has been an outspoken critic of the American Empire and the corporatization of government, the consolidation of power into the hands of the very few at the expense of the vast majority of people, here and across the world.

Having been a war correspondent in Central America, Africa, the Balkans and the Middle East, having seen war and bloodshed up close over the course of years, Hedges' perspective is searing, his knowledge formidable and his opinions compelling. Perhaps most compelling is his commitment to the truth.

Chris blasts the powers that be that control the media and have emptied it out of its contents, replaced by celebrity news and entertainment. Chris Hedges was one of the NY Times leading journalists for 15 years when, due to their unwillingness to engage truthful reporting, he resigned. Tune in for a lively discourse between these two impassioned speakers.

A Better World - 06/20/11

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For the first time in quite a while, Mitchell will do a solo show discussing current topics of the day and then open the lines to those who would like to call in. Personal health, business or collective political, economic, environmental or social issues, what have you, are welcome. Tune in to hear holistic therapist, coach and educator, founder of A Better World, Mitchell Rabin, on today's show.  

A Better World - 06/13/11

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Today's guest is the venerable, Jewish-born, holy man from Brooklyn, who did his pranams & sadhana on the Borscht Belt, Steve Bhaerman, aka Swami Beyondananda. Steve is the author of Swami for Precedent: a 7-Step Plan to Heal the Body Politic and Cure Electile Dysfunction. Tune in today to hear the wit and wisdom of this out-of-the-box thinker. Steve is also the co-author with Bruce Lipton, Ph.D., cellular biologist, of the popular Spontaneous Evolution CD series. Join us on the radio show and in person for a rare appearance of Swamiji in NYC this Wednesday evening, 7pm at the MetaCenter.

For more, go to: www.abetterworld.net/events. Discounted tickets available if you contact us thru the website and send email with the secret password (for this, see below...).

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A Better World - 06/06/11

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Scholar, Philosopher and Author, Dr. Jean Houston, is one of the foremost visionary thinkers and doers of our time and one of the principal founders of the Human Potential Movement. A powerful and dynamic speaker she has served as consultant to several agencies of United Nations including UNICEF and the UNDP. She has worked in over 100 countries training leadership at every level to enhance skills and purpose so as to bring a new mind to bear upon challenging issues.

Jean is offering a free 75-minute downloadable audio seminar entitled 3 Keys to Discovering and Living Your True Purpose now available at http://www.DestinyandYou.com which is going to be a featured part of today's interview. Jean was a guest on A Better World TV which will be aired soon. As one of my favorite human beings, I do hope you join us for today's broadcast.

A Better World - 05/30/11

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Memorial Day's guest is U.S. historian-scholar Dennis Speed. We will reflect on a country that has spent perhaps most of its history at war. And we will discuss the re-instatement of the Glass-Steagall Act, instituted initially during FDR and repealed during Clinton, which may be what largely protects the U.S. economy from utter implosion. Tune in to find out what the significance of this Act is for Americans interested in making a history worth remembering.