A Better World with Mitchell J. Rabin

To start the new year of 2018, we will actually be following up on a story we went into depth about last year. Was our Nov. 2016 election legal or corrupted for foreign influences? Is it also unconstitutional?  To discuss this Mitchell is convened a Round table discussion with some of those that are leading this charge in the Courts.

A citizen of, Indiana. Small’s father’s branch of the family descended directly from John Endicott, the first Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. On his mother’s side of the family, he descended from,related to Ralph Waldo Emerson. He is admitted to practice before Indiana’s state courts, Indiana’s two United States District Courts, four circuits of the United States Court of Appeals (D.C., Federal, Seventh, and Ninth), and the United States Supreme Court.

Kirstin Elaine Martin spearheaded this Revote effort in around November 2016 at which time it gained much momentum.  She began her career as a Coordinator for International Relations in the Prefecture Government of Yamanashi, Japan, working along side Japanese civil servants to foster mutual exchange and understanding between that country and the US.

Amy is an author, publisher, holistic therapist, environmental & multi-cultural activist, lecturer, wife, mother, grandmother and gardener.  Amy taught for Endicott and Wheelock Colleges, produced “Good Heavens!” TV and radio broadcasts and articles; she’s served as a Head Start Advisor, a T’ai Chi teacher, and since 2001 has been a wellness educator to help people slow the aging process (ashapiro.juiceplus.com).

Mitchell’s guests today are poet and yogi Robert Levine for the first half of the show, and for the second half, Mitchell interviews his wife Karen Bromberg, yogi and care-giver educator.

Robert, the author of Without Knowing Where We Are Going, is a poet, essayist and activist living in the New York City area.  He is a registered and certified yoga instructor since 1999 and is one of the founders and principal instructors of TGR Yoga’s Advanced Yoga Teacher Training program.  He has written extensively on the deep inner connection between politics and spirituality and is developing a book on that topic as well as writing a memoir of his spiritual and personal journey.

Karen is a licensed audiologist with a Doctor of Audiology.  She is the founder of Helpyouthru.com. She is a certified yoga instructor and a certified caregiving consultant, helping overwhelmed family caregivers with resources, research and relaxation (her Three R’s For Restoring Family Caregiver Sanity). If you’d like to get in touch with her, if you have any question, please feel free to phone her at 929-276-2109 or email at her [email protected].

Born in Moscow, Ms. Grineva began studying piano at the age of six, attending the Moscow Music School. She went on to the Moscow High School of Music under the aegis of the prestigious Moscow Conservatory, where she studied with Professor Pavel Messner. It was during her tutelage with Maestro Messner that Katya began giving recitals and experiencing the “special and spontaneous” interaction between artist and audience that would become the hallmark of her performances.

In New York, she was awarded a scholarship to immediately enter the Mannes School of Music graduate program, studying with Nina Svetlanova, followed by private coaching with Vladja Mashke, who played a key role in the young pianist’s development..Since April 1998 Steinway and Sons has awarded Katya the honorable title of Steinway Artist.

Other awards include: a special award from the New York State Shields in 2003 and, most recently, an award for special achievements from the government of Guam.Katya is often invited as a guest performer on the exclusive “Silver Sea” and “Radisson Seven Seas” cruise lines on which she travels through Europe and South America and the South Pacific. She has since played all over Asia including for Presidents of countries.

Mitchell’s guest today is cyber-security expert,CEO of Emergent Network Defense, Inc. (END), Dr. Earl Crane.  

Dr. Crane has advised Financial Sector executives, and multiple Fortune 100 corporations on their cyber defensive strategies and the President of the United States,  Dr. Crane led the implementation of the Department of Homeland Security’s information security strategy, and has taught hundreds of cybersecurity masters students and executives through Carnegie Mellon’s Heinz College and CISO Certificate program.

Dr. Crane’s last position in government was working in the White House overseeing cyber-security policy, reporting directly to the President.

He is helping organizations engage in cybersecurity discussions with impact to their real-world challenges and enable executives to reduce their corporate cybersecurity risk.  He is actually educating CEOs and heads in government to understand risk arising from our new digitized business economy, as it shows up in all sectors. 

In this interview,, we will look at the subject in general while focusing on a digitized media, healthcare system, a blockchain-based economy and questions of privacy, personal and national security.  What are the effects, consequences and implications of AI (artificial intelligence) and IOT (internet of things)?  These will be subjects of today’s show. 

For more information, go to: https://endsecurity.com.

Mitchell Rabin will review this past year’s activities in and at A Better World and ask the question….who is doing what to create a better world?  We will take a look at some of the interviews Mitchell has conducted over the past year as we had toward 2018 and what is happening in the world at large in several sectors.  Since creating a better world is a holistic, systems enterprise of vast proportion, it is best to review what’s happening and what’s possible on  local and global levels.

We can analyze and diagnose the problems--useful to start with--and then to solve and build a better world.  Today we'll look at these phenomena and look as well as our way of looking.

We will be guided by these two brilliant thinkers and their quotes which are at the bottom of my email signature::

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world.  Indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.”  Margaret Mead

“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”  Buckminster Fuller

And last, "We are who we're looking for" and Be the Change you want to see in the World".....M. Gandhi

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Mitchell’s guest today is acupuncturist, healer, teacher of Chi-Kung and the healing arts, Dr. George Love of Boca Raton, FL.

Breathing, Meditation and internal exercise with Medical Qigong is his primary focus. Using ten methods of Meridian therapy including acupuncture, Dr. Love synthesized a unique system called Psycho-puncture – understanding your emotional flow with acupressure tapping, prescribed Qi-Gong exercises and emotional release dance.

George uniquely blends healing with the arts of music and dance and brings pleasure and joy to the cultivation of vitality.

Tune in to hear Mitchell and George, two old friends and colleagues, speak on the subject of traditional Chinese energetic approaches to healing in which they were both trained together.

Hazel Henderson, D.Sc.Hon., FRSA, is founder of Ethical Markets Media, LLC (USA and Brazil), a Certified B Corporation.  She is a world renowned futurist, evolutionary economist, a worldwide syndicated columnist, and author of  award-winning Ethical Markets: Growing the Green Economy (2006) and eight other books. She created the Ethical Markets TV series in global distribution at www.films.com, the EthicMark® Awards, the Green Transition Scoreboard®and co-created Ethical Biomimicry Finance®.  

She shared the 1996 Global Citizen Award with Nobelist A. Perez Esquivel of Argentina. In 2007, she was elected a Fellow to Britain’s Royal Society of Arts, founded in 1754. In 2010, 2012, 2013 and 2014, she was honored as a “Top 100 Thought Leader in Trustworthy Business Behavior” by Trust Across America. 

In today's show, Mitchell & Hazel discuss the vital importance of building a renewable energy economy from the views of Climate Change & sustainable living.  They query:  What is the consciousness behind actions?

This evening, Mitchell will speak of  the essence of Thanksgiving, how we have strayed from gratitude and how we can come ‘back home to center’.  Added to this is discussion of Collapse and Collapse Psychology.  We see the collapse, the failure and dissolution of structures, infrastructures, institutions and shifts of power across the planet.  Why is this happening?  What role do we play?  How do we adapt?  Can we strengthen our bodies, minds and hearts to deal with the challenges?  Learn about a few nutritional options we have for the fortification.

Being mentally prepared and attuned to these planetary changes, in social, economic, political changes is of immeasurable value in all levels.  Bringing the fear that naturally accompanies the massive changes we are bearing witness to is healing in itself and this evening’s show will look at how to mentally/emotionally prepare, and even look forward to a world in tumult and the possibilities emerging like the lotus from mud.  And beneath the collapse?  A re-birth of immesaurable proportion.  This has been a subject discussed numerous times yet as time moves on, it becomes ever more relevant and real.

Today, Mitchell interviews the authors of Dream Trippers, a book about the series of trips to China sponsored by American Taoist teacher, Michael Winn. Michael is a long-time friend of Mitchell's and Mitchell has been on a couple of the Dream Trips in China with Michael doing T'ai-Chi on the mountaintops.

Dr. David A. Palmer is an Associate Professor of Anthropology, Department of Sociology and Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences, at the University of Hong Kong. After completing his Ph.D. in the Anthropology of Religion at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes in Paris, he was the Eileen Barker Fellow in Religion and Contemporary Society at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and, from 2004 to 2008, director of the Hong Kong Centre of the French School of Asian Studies (Ecole Française d'Extrême-Orient). His books include the award-winning Qigong Fever: Body, Science and Utopia in China (Columbia University Press, 2007); The Religious Question in Modern China (co-authored with Vincent Goossaert, University of Chicago Press, 2011; awarded the Levenson Book Prize of the Association for Asian Studies); and Dream Trippers: Global Daoism and the Predicament of Modern Spirituality (co-authored with Elijah Siegler, 

Dr. Elijah Siegler is a Professor of Religious Studies at the College of Charleston in South Carolina. He has degrees from Harvard University and the University of California at Santa Barbara. He has published an introductory textbook on New Religious Movements, and articles about religion in film and television, on American Daoism, and on religious studies pedagogy. He recently edited Coen: Framing Religion in Amoral Order (Baylor University Press, 2016) and co-wrote, with David Palmer, Dream Trippers: Global Daoism and the Predicament of Modern Culture.

l’s guest this evening is candidate for City Council for the East Side, Keith Powers. Keith is a lifelong New Yorker and a third-generation resident of Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village. Throughout his life, Keith has been committed to his community as a Democratic district leader, tenant leader, and community board member, as well as through his work for Assembly Member Jonathan Bing and State Senator Liz Krueger.  

As Chief of Staff to Assembly Member Jonathan Bing, Keith drafted and worked on legislation to:

Create an Equal Rights Amendment in the New York State Constitution to prevent discrimination based on gender; Institute ‘no fault divorce’ in New York State, ending the State’s reputation as the only state in the nation without it; Prevent the de-regulation of rent-stabilized apartments; Protecting middle-class Mitchell-Lama apartments; Preventing discrimination based on a tenant’s source of income (e.g. Section 8 vouchers or Social Security Disability Insurance); Create a small business grants program for businesses affected by Second Avenue subway construction; Improve community board oversight on nightlife establishments and close a loophole used by many bad establishments; Since 2011, Keith has worked for City Council Speaker Peter Vallone, Sr. helping to advocate for after school funding, expanded Advanced Placement, prevent bullying of LGBT students in public schools, secure funding for employment and workforce programs, create new affordable housing, and preserve the quality of life on the Upper East Side.