Thursday, June 30, 2011

Jon interviews reporter Dan Olmsted about his book The Age Of Autism

Radio podcast: Click here to listen to the interview.  (Duration: 57min)

In the first half of the program, Jon and Dan discuss what is autism. Also discussed is some of the controversy surrounding Andrew Wakefield. Also discussed is the suicidal and homicidal behavior of US troops -- the connection to mefloquine, an anti-malaria drug.

In the second half of the program, Jon and Dan discuss Dan's recent book entitled "THE AGE OF AUTISM: Mercury, Medicine, and a Man-Made Epidemic." (Dan is co-author of the book).

Jon and Dan round out the show with a mention of what veteran LA Times reporter Myron Levin uncovered about mercury in vaccines (item-1, item-2) (Myron's farewell e-mail here). In closing, they briefly discuss of the platform of The Canary Party (site, twitter).

About Dan Olmsted:

Dan Olmsted (site, twitter) is a former editor at USA Today.  From 2005-2007, he wrote the "Age of Autism" column for UPI.  He is the editor of The Age of Autism, the nation's first daily Web newspaper for the environmental-biomedical community – those who believe autism is an environmentally induced illness, that it is treatable, and that children can recover. For the most part, the major media in the United States aren't interested in that point of view, they won't investigate the causes and possible biomedical treatments of autism independently, and they don't listen to the most important voices – those of the parents. We do all those things, and more.

About Jon Rappoport:

Over the last 35 years, Jon Rappoport (site, twitter) has gained a reputation as one of the most relentless medical investigative reporters in the world.  Nominated early in his career for a Pulitzer Prize, Jon has written for CBS Healthwatch, LA Weekly, Spin Magazine, Stern, and other newspapers and magazines in the US and Europe.  His is currently the associate producer on a film in progress, American Addict, detailing the effects of pharmaceuticals on the US population.

Saturday, June 25, 2011

Jon interviews Mary Holland on the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program

Radio podcast: Click here to listen to the interview.  (Duration: 58min)

In the first half of the program, Jon and Mary discuss Mary's recent paper published in the Pace Environmental Law Review entitled "Unanswered Questions from the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program: A Review of Compensated Cases of Vaccine-Induced Brain Injury." (Mary is co-author of the paper).

In the second half of the program, Jon and Mary discuss Mary's recent book entitled "VACCINE EPIDEMIC: How Corporate Greed, Biased Science, and Coercive Government Threaten Our Human Rights, Our Health, and Our Children." (Mary is co-editor of the book).

Jon writes:

I interviewed Mary Holland, co-author of the book, VACCINE EPIDEMIC. One of the upshots of that conversation was: the official consensus about vaccines is artificially constructed. It is sustained through fear, peer pressure, media close-mindedness, and government intervention.

Which is to say, frankly, that no one in his right mind would accept the pronouncements of the pro-vaccine “community” at face value.

A drone would, though. A drone would automatically assume that all vaccines are necessary and wonderful, because he had heard it voiced so many times, from so many towers of authority, with so much assurance. A drone would slip right into the consensus, thinking he was a first cousin to a “real scientist.”

About Mary Holland:

Mary Holland (site, twitter) -- Research Scholar and Director of the Graduate Legal Skills Program, NYU School of Law, is co-editor of VACCINE EPIDEMIC, a book that exposes corruption, greed, and coercion in America's current vaccination system, for which no sound science exists.  Mary has clerked for a federal judge and worked at the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights and at prominent U.S. law firms. She has testified before Congress, filed amicus briefs, and appeared on Court TV, Fox, CBS, and NBC. She graduated from Harvard College and holds graduate degrees from Columbia University. She is a co-founder and board member of the Center for Personal Rights.

About Jon Rappoport:

Over the last 35 years, Jon Rappoport (site, twitter) has gained a reputation as one of the most relentless medical investigative reporters in the world.  Nominated early in his career for a Pulitzer Prize, Jon has written for CBS Healthwatch, LA Weekly, Spin Magazine, Stern, and other newspapers and magazines in the US and Europe.  His is currently the associate producer on a film in progress, American Addict, detailing the effects of pharmaceuticals on the US population.

Friday, June 24, 2011

AMERICAN ADDICT

18 May 2012 Update:

AMERICAN ADDICT is playing at the Seattle International Film Festival, May 18 and 19, 2012. Click here for details. Scroll down below for trailer.

The United States comprises 5 percent of the world’s population but consumes 80 percent of its pharmaceutical narcotics. This startling statistic opens AMERICAN ADDICT, documentarian Sasha Knezev’s in-depth examination of the corporatization of America’s drug dependency and its impact on both capitalism and public health. He supports his case with disturbing statistics and emotional first-person accounts from addicts, their families, noted doctors, scientific researchers, and police. Archival news footage recounts the frequent role of prescription narcotics in celebrity deaths—from Elvis Presley to Michael Jackson and Heath Ledger—to illustrate how this $64 billion industry has shaped social and political policies. A thorough indictment, AMERICAN ADDICT leaves no facet of the pharmacological industry’s influence unexplored. Noting historical examples such as the government’s Bush-era revamping of the Medicaid program to benefit big business and its staggering contributions to political candidates, the film exposes the pharmaceutical industry’s sway on politics and education. This hard-to-forget film will leave you questioning medical practices and the place of “legal” drugs in our society. 


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24 June 2011:

Big news.  Jon is the associate producer on a new film documentary, AMERICAN ADDICT, now being shot around the country.  It's a great project, headed up by Jon's friend, director Sasha Knezev. The team is aimed for a premiere at the Sundance Festival in January 2012.

AMERICAN ADDICT is a documentary about the extent and horrendous effects of prescription-drug addiction in America.  Interviews, first-person accounts, background on the secret epidemic that is destroying lives from nursing homes to inner cities to affluent bedroom communities to mansions of the ultra-wealthy.

Stay tuned for updates on AMERICAN ADDICT.

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About Sasha Knezev:

Sasha (imbd) is the director of FRAGMENTS OF DANIELA (trailer) -- a powerful feature film about the sex trafficking of young Eastern European women.  It won an award as the Best Dramatic Feature at the New York International Independent Film and Video Festival.

The Festival's director, Stuart Alson said, "New York audiences loved Fragments of Daniela, and it was well-received at this year's Cannes market.  Mr. Knezev is a passionate and talented filmmaker and his characters are deeply compelling."

About Jon Rappoport:

Over the last 35 years, Jon Rappoport has gained a reputation as one of the most relentless medical investigative reporters in the world.  Nominated early in his career for a Pulitzer Prize, Jon has written for CBS Healthwatch, LA Weekly, Spin Magazine, Stern, and other newspapers and magizines in the US and Europe.  His is currently the associate producer on a film in progress, American Addict, detailing the effects of pharmaceuticals on the US population.

To learn more about about Jon, visit www.nomorefakenews.com.

Psychiatric Population Control

Note: This article is being sent out as a press release to media outlets, indicating that Jon is available for interviews on the subject of "Psychiatric Treatment as a form of Population Control in Society".  If you would like to pitch in, feel free to distribute this post far and wide.

Jon writes:

A recent development has highlighted the trend of authoritarian psychiatric invasions into everyday life.

A new book has revealed that the diagnosis of “bipolar disease” among American children is a scientific fraud and a precursor to the administration of highly dangerous drugs.

Psychiatrist Stuart Kaplan, a professor at Penn State College of Medicine, has written an article for the June 20th issue of Newsweek, based on his book, YOUR CHILD DOES NOT HAVE BIPOLAR DISORDER: HOW BAD SCIENCE AND GOOD PR CREATED THE DIAGNOSIS.

Kaplan states that, in 1995, there were fewer than 20,000 outpatient visits for pediatric bipolar disorder in the US.  As of 2003, that number had swelled to a mind-boggling 800,000.

And yet there is no recognized psychiatric category called "pediatric bipolar disorder."

But the publication of a 2002 best seller, The Bipolar Child (by Demitri Papolos M.D. and Janice Papolos), followed by wall to wall media coverage—Oprah, Time, 20/20, Dan Rather—took the country by storm.

Worse yet is the treatment regimen for children stemming from this false diagnosis.  Two major drugs: Lithium and Valproate.

Adverse effects of Valproate include:

acute, life-threatening, and even fatal liver toxicity;

life-threatening inflammation of the pancreas;

brain damage.

Adverse effects of Lithium include:

intercranial pressure leading to blindness;

peripheral circulatory collapse;

stupor and coma.

Bipolar disorder has been diagnosed in children as young as two.

But this is not the first time an arbitrary psychiatric diagnosis has been made on children (or adults), then leading to the administration of highly dangerous drugs.

I am prepared to speak extensively about ADHD and Ritalin, and depression and Prozac (Paxil, Zoloft).  Those two scenarios are strikingly similar to pediatric bipolar disorder.

Two vital facts:

In the years 2006-2008, a staggering 7.6% of American children were diagnosed with ADHD.  (Source: Pediatrics, May 23, 2011)

27 million Americans are taking antidepressants.  (Source: Archives of General Psychiatry, 8/4/2009)

In what sense is all this population control?  When you move in on the mind and make arbitrary diagnoses and follow up with highly toxic drugs, you are essentially waging war on the brain.  These figures should indicate the scope of that ever-expanding war.

Call it profit-seeking, call it pseudo-science, call it incompetence.  There are many ways to frame the issue.  But the effects are no different from what happens on a battlefield.  Great and lasting damage.  And professional ignorance is no excuse, because these facts are out in the open, for anyone to examine.

Recent reports indicate the cost of doing a complete genetic workup on a patient is rapidly falling.  Combine this with the fact that there is a whole field of research called "psychiatric genetics," and you
realize these researchers intend to pin all sorts of "mental disorders" on speculative gene investigations -- despite the fact that not one such mental disorder has ever been shown to exist, as a discrete entity, through any physical test.  In other words, it's one fiction being built on another fiction.  There is much to say about this house of cards.

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About Jon Rappoport:

Over the last 35 years, Jon Rappoport has gained a reputation as one of the most relentless medical investigative reporters in the world.  Nominated early in his career for a Pulitzer Prize, Jon has written for CBS Healthwatch, LA Weekly, Spin Magazine, Stern, and other newspapers and magizines in the US and Europe.  His is currently the associate producer on a film in progress, American Addict, detailing the effects of pharmaceuticals on the US population.

Jon's e-book, THE OWNERSHIP OF ALL LIFE, describes astonishing PR maneuvers and false science used to control the population's acceptance of covert corporate and government agendas.  These agendas are designed to increase top-down power, at the expense of the well-being of all of us.

JON RAPPOPORT
www.nomorefakenews.com
qjrconsulting@gmail.com

Saturday, June 18, 2011

Jon Rappoport Conference Calls

This is a unique service Jon offers to small groups.

You set up a conference call, and Jon will deliver a 75-minute seminar.

These informative calls are geared to the interests of your group.

Here are sample topics:

What You Need To Know About Vaccines

What Is The Medical Cartel And What Are Its Goals And Strategies?

What Is Freedom For?

Imagination And Desire: The Two Great Forces In Human Life

The Return Of The Magic Era

Imagination Creates Reality

Jon has delivered seminars and lectures on these topics to audiences all over the world.  Here is a link to a number of his audio seminars:

Logistics:

- Conference call duration: 75min.

- Will Jon take questions on the call? Yes. Jon will talk for about an hour and then answer questions.

- MP3 recording of the conference call provided.

- The group itself sets up the call using a free online service of their choosing. For example, www.freeconferencecall.com.

To learn more about setting up a conference call for your group, contact Jon at: qjrconsulting@gmail.com.

Thursday, June 16, 2011

Logic & Analysis Course

"I have received MANY inquiries about my LOGIC AND ANALYSIS course. People have asked me for an outline or syllabus of the course, and, a FAQ. So, here they are.

* 5/9/2013 update: Revised the FAQ.

* 1/19/2013 update: New purchase link.

* 4/19/2012 update: Price change notice added.

* 7/21/2011 update: Comprehensive FAQ added.

"Also, I’m happy to answer any and all questions that come up while people are reading the course outline and FAQ, including queries about cost, shipping details, etc. So, after reading this, feel free to contact me if you have any questions - qjrconsulting@gmail.com.

NOTICE: THE PRICE OF THE LOGIC COURSE HAS BEEN CUT DRASTICALLY. IT IS NOW PART OF A MUCH LARGER PRODUCT, "THE MATRIX REVEALED." CLICK HERE TO PURCHASE "THE MATRIX REVEALED," WHICH CONTAINS THE WHOLE LOGIC COURSE. THE LOGIC COURSE USED TO SELL FOR $375. "THE MATRIX REVEALED" SELLS FOR $125. You download the product upon purchase.

"First, a short video overview of the course. Then, I present you with the written FAQ and course outline."

Video Overview:



"When students complete this course and know the materials, their world has changed. They can approach other material in school and out of school with vastly increased awareness—and they are, in fact, eager to dig into new information and analyze it with these new tools. The students become the inheritors of a profound Western tradition of thought, a tradition that brought tremendous progress to civilization.

"Two significant points: Unlike some other educational publishers, I offer the course for use as many times as the teacher wants to teach it to his/her student classes, on into the future—the price of the course remains the same. And I do not increase the price of the course on the basis of how many students are in a given class.

"I'm available to help teachers master this material, so they can teach it with confidence to their students.

"Keep in mind that this outline only begins to describe the depth of the material. The student, in many classroom sessions, analyzes passages of text that contain multiple logical errors. The student learns how to dissect these passages and find all the flaws. This is an experience that can literally change lives—because the student wakes up to what logic is all about in a real-life situation—as opposed to passively accepting whatever information comes his way."

FAQ on Rappoport Logic Course:

I've been getting many requests to further describe my logic course -- hence this FAQ, which answers a lot of questions.

Since I began writing articles about my LOGIC AND ANALYSIS course, I have had a flood of inquiries... people have been ordering the course for independent adult self-study, and, to teach it to their home-schooled children.

Q: How long is the course?

A: Eighteen classroom sessions. That includes a final exam.

Q: So it isn't just a workshop or a seminar.

A: No, it's a real course.

Q: At what pace would you recommend teaching it in a home-school setting?

A: Three sessions a week, if possible. An hour per session.

Q: Is the course available online?

A: You download the product upon purchase. It is a collection of MP3 audio files and .pdf document files.

Q: What are the course materials?

A: A extensive teacher's manual, student study sheets, and MP3 audio files.

Q: What's in the teacher's manual?

A: The manual contains a layout for all the lessons, in chronological order, and explanations for all the passages that are analyzed in the course.

Q: Passages?

A: Yes. There are short and long passages of text. I wrote these with logical errors embedded in them. Students and teachers work over the passages and discover the specific logical errors. The main passages are written to resemble news stories, press releases, political-speak, science journalism, and internet reporting.

Q: Why?

A: Because they resemble what you encounter in the real world. The whole point of the course is gaining the ability to deal with information in any form, in life. That means being able to take information apart and pinpoint the specific logical mistakes, and analyze those mistakes, in detail.

Q: If an adult is studying the course on his own, how does he proceed?

A: Actually, whether the adult is studying the course on his/her own or preparing to teach it to children, the approach is the same. Go through the entire teacher's manual, step by step. Master everything.

Q: What if questions arise during this process?

A: Contact me directly -- qjrconsulting@gmail.com. I'm available to answer any and all questions.

Q: Is there an extra fee for this service?

A: No.

Q: What is on the MP3 audio files?

A: My analysis of the six long passages of text that make up the core of the course. I wanted to do this part in audio, so the teachers can listen to me attacking the text and pulling it apart. It gives a sense of what it's really like to dig out each logical error and identify it.

Q: When a home-schooling adult teaches the course, is it a process of the teacher and students mutually discovering logical fallacies?

A: No. The teacher already has mastered the course and knows where all the errors are. However, in class, the children first battle through a passage on their own, with the teacher noting their findings. Then the teacher explains each actual logical error in detail. Then, as homework, on their own, the students go back to that passage again and find all the logical errors, and describe them in writing.

Q: These logical fallacies-are they written in stone or did you dream them up?

A: The traditional fallacies have been discovered and described, in various ways, over the last 2400 years. They are very real and very exacting.

Q: What is your background?

A: As a college student (Amherst College), I studied logic as part of my major in philosophy. I had extensive training in logic there. I taught in several private schools in New York and Los Angeles, and tutored remedial English at Santa Monica College. I've had a 25-year career as an investigative reporter-LA Weekly, CBS Healthwatch, Spin Magazine, Stern (Germany), etc. During this period, I applied logic to my investigations on a regular basis. Particularly in the area of medical fraud, I had to use logic to get behind the PR pronouncements of various "authorities" and find the inconsistencies and deceptions that were occurring in published research.

Q: On what basis do you sell your course to home-schooling parents?

A: They may use it with any size class for as long as they want to teach it, as many times as they want to teach it, but the course must be taught in their own home-school. The course is copyrighted and cannot be sold or given away to other teachers.

Q: I have a plan to teach it to people in my community. Is that all right?

A: Absolutely. You can deliver the course as many times as you want to-as long as you are the teacher.

Q: Is your course given for academic credit in home schools?

A: No. It is for enrichment. I don't use sanitized and silly politically correct passages in the course-most if not all school systems would refuse to allow real-world-type passages. They want largely unrealistic material. That would defeat the whole purpose of the course.

Q: Why is logic so important?

A: Because it is the foundation on which all other fields of study are built. It is a priceless Western tradition, and it is being lost. We need to reverse that trend. A student can't be truly literate unless he can analyze what he is reading. This fact is ignored in most schools.

Q: Do you oppose rote learning?

A: Actually, no. I oppose learning that is exclusively and only rote. Students also think. Everybody thinks. There is a choice. You can learn how to think clearly, or you can remain passive and accept whatever is thrown your way. People have a confusion about this. They sometimes believe independent thinking is the same thing as rebellion. Clear thinking is clear thinking. It enables you to face information, reporting, and argument head-on, and make judgments on the merits. The logical merits.

Q: But what about, say, faith? How does logic relate to faith?

A: Learning how to think lucidly strengthens any faith or first principles you live by, because logic is about something else. Logic shows you the difference between profound faith and analysis. You don't need to confuse the two.

Q: How many long passages are there in the course?

A: Six. They are taken up and analyzed during twelve classroom sessions. They are analyzed deeply.

Q: How do I pay for the course?

A: The course comes with the purchase of The Matrix Revealed. Payment is made online via paypal.

Q: How soon after I pay do I have access to the course?

A: Immediately upon online payment.

Q: How much is the course?

A. THE PRICE OF THE LOGIC COURSE HAS BEEN CUT DRASTICALLY. IT IS NOW PART OF A MUCH LARGER PRODUCT, "THE MATRIX REVEALED." CLICK HERE TO PURCHASE "THE MATRIX REVEALED," WHICH CONTAINS THE WHOLE LOGIC COURSE. THE LOGIC COURSE USED TO SELL FOR $375. "THE MATRIX REVEALED" SELLS FOR $125. You download the product upon purchase.

Q: Could you personally teach the course in a corporate setting?

A: Yes. I'm available on that basis. The content of the course would change somewhat.

Q: Is each classroom lesson of the course based on the prior lessons, or can it be taught in any sequence?

A: You follow my sequence. The course is built in a traditional fashion. The easier and simpler material comes first. Then, the more complex lessons and passages.

Q: Can I read an outline of the course?

A: Yes. I've included it at the end of this FAQ.

Q: Are eighteen classroom sessions enough to become a logical thinker?

A: Yes. You certainly don't exhaust the whole field of logic, but you move into a new sphere. You can no longer be deceived or taken in by illogical presentations. You can take those presentations of information, in whatever form, apart and dissect the logical errors.

Q: Illogic is rampant in our society?

A: It's the "way things are done" now. You have to realize that the higher you go on the educational ladder, the more subtle bias and coercion creep in. Teachers and institutions have their slant on things. They cleverly sell that slant and disguise it. If students don't know what's going on, they become captive to some form of bias. They become "products" of the system.

Q: Your course is an antidote to that?

A: It is. In our society, there are many political points of view masquerading as pure knowledge. The question is, do you want your children to fall under the sway of these strategies, or do you want their heads to rise above them.

Q: As an adult, will I be able to master the course myself?

A: Of course. The reading level required for the course is "bright high school."

Q: I have children I want to home school, but they're young.

A: I have several parents who have young children. These children are readers, but they're not yet at the level of the course. So the parents are taking them through the course by reading parts of it to them, and then discussing the logical issues in those passages. Later, when these children are old enough and are reading at a high school level, the parents will teach the course to them again-fully. It's a very good strategy, and it gives the kids a fine head start.

Q: There are several different types of illogical arguments?

A: About ten basic ones.

Q: Certain patterns of illogical argument emerge and you can recognize these patterns?

A: Exactly. I once had a student who worked for a big company. He was on the receiving end of many reports from a particular manager. After studying logic, the student was able to see that this manager was making the same basic illogical argument over and over, in different situations. He was costing the company a great deal of money.

Q: On the whole, would you say that people who offer illogical information are unable to see what they're doing, or are they intentionally trying to deceive others?

A: Mainly, these people who chronically commit logical errors are uneducated-they don't know logic. They're struggling along in the best way they can. But a surprising number of people are just trying to sell their own personal bias. They're slanting things intentionally to fit that bias. It happens in politics all the time, but I can say from experience that it happens just as often in science, and in other fields. Economics, history, psychology, for example.

Q: And students who can see this clearly and specifically would be ahead of the game.

A: Such students would have a towering advantage.

Course Outline:

The course has 18 classroom sessions. The last two sessions are the final exam and the teacher’s step-by-step review of the exam.

The teacher’s manual explains how every lesson is laid out.

Every classroom lesson is filled with examples that are studied by the student, under guidance of the teacher.

LESSON 1 — The student learns how generalizations and vague terms can infect the reasoning process and make it useless and misleading. What is a generalization? What is a vague generalization? What is a vague term? Examples are studied. Vague terms and generalizations are the most common errors found in the reasoning process.

LESSON 2 — The student learns to analyze several traditional logical fallacies that occur in a line of reasoning. These fallacies are shown in many examples. They are concise and clear. These are the flaws first described by Aristotle in ancient Greece.

LESSON 3 — The student now begins to examine actual passages of text that contain multiple logical errors. The passages are short. With the teacher’s guidance., the student comes to see how these passages are misleading. This lesson is the groundwork for everything that is to come in the course.

LESSON 4 — The student tackles a whole host of text passages that contain logical flaws. These passages illustrate such fallacies as: polemic; attacking the person rather than the argument; vague terms; inappropriate analogy; “sales pitch”; omission of vital information; circular reasoning.

LESSONS 5-16 — The student now embarks on the analysis of six much longer and more complex text passages. Each long passage is studied for two classroom sessions. These passages resemble news stories, political promotion, internet journalism, science press releases—in other words, just the sort of material we all come across every day. The teacher has the students take apart each passage and offer up the errors they find; then, the teacher explains ALL the errors.

"In my MP3 audios that accompany the teacher’s manual, I go through each of these long passages and describe the errors contained in them. The teacher can play my descriptions to the class.

"Lessons 5-16 are the core of the course. The student gains confidence in being able to dissect, SPECIFICALLY AND IN DETAIL, realistic written material that contains multiple logical errors. Step by step, passage by passage, the student learns how to find the flaws and see through the misdirection."

LESSONS 17 AND 18 — The student takes the final exam. In it, the student examines a new long text passage and writes down all the SPECIFIC errors he/she can find. Then, after grading the exams, the teacher gives, in the last class, a detailed analysis of the exam passage.

"This outline can’t possibly present the experience of actually doing the course. So after reading this, feel free to contact me if you have any questions - qjrconsulting@gmail.com.

"The teacher’s manual is very complete. It contains every passage contained in the course—and a detailed explanation of how the major passages are flawed. Essentially, the teacher studies the manual and then teaches the course. I am available to answer questions teachers have as they study the material themselves.

"The course is geared for bright high-school students. I am, on request, available to design logic courses for children of different ages."

Jon Rappoport has been working as an investigative reporter for 25 years. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize early in his career, he has published articles in LA Weekly, Spin Magazine, Stern, CBS Healthwatch, and other newspapers and magazines in the US and Europe. He has taught in several private schools in New York and Los Angeles, and has tutored extensively in remedial English at Santa Monica College. At Amherst College, where he graduated with a BA in philosophy, he studied formal logic under Joseph Epstein, a revered professor of philosophy.

Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Tutorial for Writers

Jon has worked as an investigative reporter, poet, novelist, essayist, course writer, and editor for 35 years.

He accepts private clients who are writers or aspiring writers.

The tutorial is geared to the needs of the individual, and is given by phone and email.  It is an intense eight-session exploration of professional skills and creative potential.

For more information, Contact Jon at: qjrconsulting@gmail.com.

Jon Rappoport has been pursuing several careers for the last 30 years: investigative reporter; painter, novelist, lecturer, seminar leader. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize early in his career, Jon has written for CBS Healthwatch, LA Weekly, Spin Magazine, Stern, and other newspapers and magazines in the US and Europe. He is the author of Logic and Analysis, a course for high school students. His books include The Secret Behind Secret Societies and The Magic Agent.

Jon Rappoport Consulting Services

"For the past 15 years, I've worked with many private clients, mostly by telephone. The core of this work remains the same:

NOTE: For additional backgrounders on Imagination and its key role in individual power, click here.

"How does a person use the power of imagination to create the future he/she desires?

"It always comes back to that.

"You can try to tap-dance around this question, and eventually you'll wind up right in the middle of it, because at a deep level, we all know the answer is what we are looking for.

"You can try to drive a car without turning the ignition key, but sooner or later you'll realize you're postponing the inevitable.

"There are two astonishing forces operating in the human being: desire and imagination.

"The first can be approached this way: what do you REALLY want?

"The second: how do you conceive of getting it?

"If either force is shut down, you remain at the starting gate.

"The purpose of my work is to liberate both forces.

"Let me clarify this situation by offering a negative example. Year after year, a person labors at a job or runs a business he really doesn't care about. He knows there is something more. But he convinces himself he has to remain in the same place, and he believes if he can just solve the problems connected with the job or business, everything will be all right.

"However, it doesn't turn out that way. Instead, for every problem solved, two more seem to appear. This is frustrating and stressful, to say the least.

"Well, it turns out that problems are evidence of the fact that the person isn't plugged into the two great forces—desire and imagination. In other words, unending problems are exactly what happen when he is pursuing a course that veers away from his true desire and imagination.

"He feels he has turned into an eternal problem solver, and he begins to believe his only option is to become a better solver.

"This is an illusion.

"There is a better way. It takes commitment and courage, but everything in this world requires commitment. So why not travel along the road toward profound fulfillment of desire?

"Imagination is much more than formulating a plan that will achieve a goal. It's an infinite capacity that makes the pursuit of desire larger, more comprehensive, more thrilling; it fleshes out aspects of desire that are hidden and submerged. It increases the size and scope and energy of life itself.

"These are the directions I take in my work.

"Feel free to contact me at: qjrconsulting@gmail.com."

NOTE: Click here for additional backgrounders on Imagination and its key role in individual power.

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About Jon Rappoport:

Jon Rappoport has been pursuing several careers for the last 30 years: investigative reporter; painter, novelist, lecturer, seminar leader. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize early in his career, Jon has written for CBS Healthwatch, LA Weekly, Spin Magazine, Stern, and other newspapers and magazines in the US and Europe. He is the author of Logic and Analysis, a course for high school students. His books include The Secret Behind Secret Societies, The Magic Agent, and The Ownership of All Life (kindle version here).

Thursday, June 9, 2011

More about Jon's interview with Thomas Jefferson

For the official press release, click here.

Note: This 1-hour show was recorded in-studio on Wed, June 8th.  This show will be first broadcast on Wed, June 15th, 7-8 PM, Eastern Time. On June 16th, it will then be made available in the archives.  See the official press release for more details.

Here are some tidbits that came out of Jon's interview with Thomas Jefferson: In Jon's words...

"We taped the interview on the 8th. I expected a few surprises, but I wasn't prepared for what Mr. Jefferson had in store for me. Several times, I almost fell off the chair.

"For example:

"Every generation should write its own Constitution.

"He assumed everything west of the Rockies would be another nation.

"The whole purpose of the public education system was to teach civics, what it meant to be citizen of a Republic. If a person wanted to learn how to be a ballet dancer or a shipbuilder or anything else, he/she should go somewhere else to learn how.

"And, Alexander Hamilton took America to 'the dark side.'

"Don't miss this interview."

For the official press release, click here.

Wednesday, June 8, 2011

Jon inverviews Thomas Jefferson

A MAJOR RADIO EVENT!

When: First air date & time: Wednesday, June 15, 7-8 PM, Eastern Time

Where: ProgressiveRadioNetwork.com (click on "Listen Live" in the upper right hand corner)

Can't listen on the first air date?: No worries! On June 16, a recording of the show will posted and archived here: http://bit.ly/kZpGzp

Note: This 1-hour show was recorded in-studio on Wed, June 8th.  This show will be first broadcast on Wed, June 15th, 7-8 PM, Eastern Time. On June 16th, it will then be made available in the archives.

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Scholar Clay Jenkinson, who has portrayed, with stunning accuracy, Thomas Jefferson, in venues all over the world, will assume the identity once more, for a sit-down interview with Jon Rappoport, Pulitzer-nominated reporter.

“Mr. Jefferson,” in character, will answer Jon’s questions about life in 2011, from his 18th-century perspective.

“I wish we had three hours,” Jon stated, “but we’ll squeeze in everything we can in one hour.”

What is Jefferson’s view of where America has gone in two centuries?  Is it still a Republic?  Should it be?  How can a Constitution designed to fit fewer than three million citizens apply to a population of 300 million?  Do even the rights and powers of individual states make sense, when one state, California, has 37 million residents?  What about the national health-care plan?  The state of public education? Mega-corporate influence?  Two political parties with common agendas?  The military-industrial complex?  The Federal Reserve?  Invasive surveillance?

The questions pile up.

This will be an intriguing and riveting hour of radio—a unique experience.

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About Clay Jenkinson:

Clay Jenkinson is the director of the Dakota Institute and the founder of the Theodore Roosevelt Center. A humanities scholar, he is the host of the nationally syndicated radio show, The Thomas Jefferson Hour. (www.jeffersonhour.org)


About Jon Rappoport:


Jon Rappoport has worked as an investigative reporter for 35 years. He has published articles on politics, health, and media for LAWeekly, CBS Healthwatch, Spin Magazine, Stern, and is the author of Logic and Analysis, a course for high-school students.


Addendum:


Jon adds...

"I have seen Clay on C-SPAN, debating with 'Alexander Hamilton,' and I can tell you Clay is phenomenal. Not just good. Great.

"So tell all your friends and enemies and your grandma, too.

"When I wrote my Logic Course for home schoolers, I discovered that Jefferson was a devoted student of logic. He went to college to study it. It was one of his pillars. So I hope to touch on that in the conversation.

"Of course, there are so MANY questions I want to ask him. Impossible to get them all in. One hour is good, eight hours would be better.

"For example, Jefferson once remarked rather casually, in a letter, that the federal government should run foreign affairs and policy, and the states should handle everything else. In 2011, I fell off my chair. Apparently, this is way he pretty much viewed the distribution of powers as laid out in the Constitution.

"I have to believe that Jefferson, looking at the massive USA these days, would want radical decentralization. What form would it take?

"Again, Clay isn’t just an actor playing Jefferson. He’s a scholar, and he’s explored Jefferson’s life and ideas up one side and down the other.

"It’s a unique opportunity."

Tuesday, June 7, 2011

Discussing AIDS with host Zo Williams

Jon Rappoport to discuss AIDS with radio host Zo Williams on The Voice of Reason show on Foxx Hole Radio in Los Angeles (Sirius/XM Satellite Radio network).

Topic:

The AIDS Awareness Show

Safe Sex, Prevention, Conspiracy, and Cure?

On Foxxhole Radio Sirius 98 / XM 98

http://www.siriusxm.com/thefoxxhole

http://www.foxxhole.tv/radio-shows/the-voice-of-reason-with-zo-williams.html

Date & Time:

June 9th, 2011

7PM PST

Note: Jon is slated to be on the air 7:15-7:40 PM PST (approx.)

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About Zo Williams:

Renard "Zo" Williams is a self-published author, relationship specialist, television and radio personality. As a student of world religions, Zo is a passionate and opinionated dynamo who offers revolutionary thoughts about the breakdown of social systems and institutions as we know them.

Deemed the "Hip Hop Dr. Phil," Zo lends a unique perspective to the relationship therapy world based on realism and ultimate truth. While some may love his opinions and others may hate them, they are always sure to leave you thinking.

Website: http://zowilliams.com/

About Jon Rappoport:

Jon Rappoport moves into the 35th year of his distinguished career as an investigative journalist.

Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize early in his career, Jon has written for CBS Healthwatch, LA Weekly, Spin Magazine, Stern (Germany), and other newspapers and magazines in the US and Europe.

Over the years, Jon has been interviewed on two major (and diverse) subjects: the encroachment of the medical system on our lives and well-being; and the role of imagination/creativity in the health of society and the individual.

Website: http://nomorefakenews.com/