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Julian Raven’s art and love for his adopted country and its freedoms collided in the 2016 presidential election to raise questions about the First Amendment and the authority of the Smithsonian Institution.

In his new book, Odious & Cerberus: An American Immigrant’s Odyssey and His Free Speech Legal War Against Smithsonian Corruption, artist Julian Raven details how he used his art to participate in the American political process—and the enormous personal toll it took.

“Breaches of trust and the silencing of any person’s First Amendment protected free speech within institutions of learning, regardless of that person’s political leanings, trip the alarm of injustice and freedom,” said Raven.

Raven’s painting Unafraid and Unashamed featured Donald Trump alongside a bald eagle, was his enthusiastic expression of support for his choice for president. He used his own resources to transport the painting to Iowa to campaign for Trump in the caucuses. After several attempts to present the painting to Donald Trump, and after showing it at a political art convention, he offered to loan the painting to the National Portrait Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution.

Raven filed an application with the Rockwell Museum Art in Corning, New York, a Smithsonian affiliate, to loan the painting to the museum in Washington prior to the inauguration, he was curtly told by Director Kim Sajet the painting was “not painted from life,” “too pro-Trump” and, finally, “no good.”  This led to a lawsuit and a pro-se appeal that went as far as the Supreme Court.

Mr. Raven has proposed and advocates for a Constitutional amendment to define the legal status of the Smithsonian as a private trust or an instrument of the government and require greater transparency in its operations.

Julian Raven was born in England, raised in Spain and became a United States citizen in 2015. He is a commercial artist.

Jesse Brown is CEO, Himalaya Exchange, a cryptocurrency exchange specialized in the Himalaya Dollar the Himalaya Coin. The exchange lists its headquarters in the British Virgin Islands Brown has years of technical experience as a lead blockchain architect in several start-ups and award-winning Wall Street blockchain projects. One project he was leading was recognized as a top 50 Blockchain in 2020 by Forbes.

What is the Himalaya Ecosystem?

The world is undergoing a financial revolution, with the advent of blockchain technology and cryptocurrency establishing a new monetary paradigm, according to the Himalaya Exchange. "The Himalaya Exchange is at the heart of this revolution," it says. "Our values, mission, and company spirit is to create a world where people have complete control over their money, data, and destinies."

The ambition to create world-changing financial solutions fuels our innovation; the Himalaya Exchange is not just a coin or an exchange but an infrastructure of the world’s first true crypto ecosystem. We are the first and only company building an end-to-end, blockchain-based integrated financial system, encompassing a unique cryptocurrency (Himalaya Coin), a stable coin (Himalaya Dollar), an exchange platform (Himalaya Exchange), and a payment application (Himalaya Pay). A new financial system that provides freedom for all​, using blockchain technology to deliver innovative, affordable, and secure services.

Source: https://blog.himalaya.exchange/himalaya-exchange-envisioning-the-future-e9e9e4e78da6

NATHAN LEWIS, an internationally renowned expert on money and taxes, is the co-author of the Inflation: What It Is, Why It’s Bad, and How to Fix It. The book explains what’s behind the worst inflationary storm in more than forty years—one that is dominating the headlines and shaking Americans by their pocketbooks. The cost-of-living explosion since the COVID pandemic has raised alarms about a possible return of a 1970’s-style “Great Inflation.” Some observers even fear a descent into the kind of Weimar-style hyperinflation that has torn apart so many nations. Is this true? If so, what should be done? How should we prepare for the future?

According to the publisher Inflation answers these and other questions in an engaging discussion that draws on the singular expertise of Steve Forbes, chairman of Forbes Media, acclaimed for his insights on money and the economy; Nathan Lewis, internationally renowned expert on money and taxation; and author and journalist Elizabeth Ames.

Website: www.amazon.com/Inflation-What-Why-Its-Bad/dp/1641772433

DICK BOVE is the chief strategist at Odeon Capital Group and covers the bank sector. He is among the most prominent bank industry analysts in the US, often controversial, with a keen and practical sense of history and of events that are often translated into his analysis. Bove attended Stuyvesant High, N.Y., and is a graduate of Columbia University, 1962, majoring in political science.

BOVE began his career in 1965, working for a series of firms including Wertheim, Shearson, Raymond James, Hoefer & Arnett and Punk Ziegel, before it was purchased by Ladenburg Thalmann. Later, Bove joined Rochdale Securities and then eventually moved to Odeon Capital. A widely quoted analyst with some five decades of experience behind him, Bove relies on common sense and macroeconomic trends to forecast markets.  He appears regularly on business shows on TV and radio, and is frequently cited in media coverage of Wall Street. On the popular weekly ODEON CAPITAL CONVERSATIONS with MAT VAN ALSTYNE, BOVE provides in-depth analysis and commentary on many of the big market and global trends of our times. ODEON CAPITAL CONVERSATIONS is hosted by JOHN AIDAN BYRNE.

Bove is the author of Guardians of Prosperity: Why America Needs Big Banks (December 26, 2013)

Website: https://www.odeoncap.com/

Stephen Auth has had a long career on Wall Street, first with Prudential Investments in the 1980s and 1990s, and since 2000 with Federated Investors, where he serves as executive vice president and a chief investment officer of Federated Global Equities. Steve is a frequent guest on CNBC, Fox Business News, and Bloomberg TV, a long-standing participant in Barron’s annual investment outlook panel, a member of The Economic Club of New York and The New York Society of Security Analysts, and a chartered financial analyst (CFA). He earned his undergraduate degree at Princeton University, where he graduated summa cum laude, and his graduate degree at Harvard Business School, where he was a Baker Scholar.

Steve is a member of the Regnum Christi movement and sits on the national board of the Lumen Institute, which he helped found in New York.  He has participated in missions in Mexico, and with his wife, Evelyn, has led the New York City street mission for ten years. Steve and Evelyn are involved in a number of other apostolic activities, including a spiritual tour of the Metropolitan Museum of Art called “Man’s Search for God: A History of Art through the Prism of Faith,” which they developed and give on occasional Friday evenings. Steve also serves on the board of the Program for Church Management, being developed in Rome by the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross.

Steve and Evelyn have two wonderful sons, Richard and Michael Auth.

ABOUT PILGRIMAGE TO THE MUSEUM

Have you ever visited a museum and found the narrations in the self-guided-tour headsets a bit tedious? Slightly too clinical, perhaps? And have you ever noticed that God is rarely mentioned in art museums these days, unless in a cold, archaeological, “scientific” way? All of that is about to change.

In Pilgrimage to the Museum, author-curator Stephen Auth takes you on a provocative and colorful journey through the history of Western art, interpreted through a lens of profound Christian faith — appropriately so since, in Auth’s view, much of Western art expresses humanity’s search for God, the Divine Artist-Creator.

In this beautifully illustrated voyage, drawn largely from works on display at New York’s popular Metropolitan Museum of Art, you will experience the ups and downs of humanity’s determined quest. Leaving all the art-history jargon at the front door, Auth will transport you in his spiritual time machine from Egypt’s Old Kingdom, through Greece and Rome, to medieval Europe; from the age of the Renaissance, through the Ages of Exploration and Enlightenment; and from the rise of atheism in the late 1800s to the seeds of a spiritual rebirth in the modern era. Along the way, you will experience anew the masterpieces of many artists, from Polykleitos to Raphael, Duccio to Rembrandt, Monet to Picasso.

Through the works of these great artists, you will encounter the profound truths that lead many to God and cause many others to wonder. You will discover how various themes and motifs of man’s struggle to find God occur, morph, fade, and then reoccur centuries later. As you laugh, cry, and pray your way through this illuminating voyage, you will emerge refreshed and renewed in your own journey to God— and you will never look at a work of art the same way again.

Source: SOPHIA INSTITUTE PRESS

Website: www.sophiainstitute.com/products/item/pilgrimage-to-the-museum

Dr. Warren Farrell is a pioneer in both the women’s movement (elected three times to the Board of the National Organization for Women in NYC) and the men’s movement (called by GQ Magazine “The Martin Luther King of the men’s movement”). He was named by the Financial Times as one of the world’s top 100 thought leaders.

Dr. Farrell has appeared on over 1000 TV shows, including being interviewed repeatedly by Oprah, Barbara Walters, and Tucker Carlson, as well as by Sean Hannity, Peter Jennings, Katie Couric, Larry King, Regis Philbin and Charlie Rose. He has frequently written for and been featured in The New York Times and publications worldwide.

After starting a house painting business at the peak of the housing bubble, Jimmy Morrison drove over 35,000 miles interviewing people who predicted the crash, resulting in two documentaries. The 1st film looks at the causes of The Housing Bubble and other crises ranging from the great depression to the dot com bubble. The 2nd film starts with the bailouts in 2008 and shows The Bigger Bubble that the economy has become today. The world premiere of The Housing Bubble was at the Anthem Film Festival in 2018.

Source: Let Us Disagree Productions

KRISTEN VAN UDEN,  a spokesperson for Sophia Institute Press, is currently writing a book about the persecution of Catholics under Communism.

About THE ANTICHRIST: THE FINAL CAMPAIGN AGAINST THE SAVIOR. FR. VINCETN MICELI (Sophia Institute Press) 

Fiction and nonfiction books and  movies speculate about end-of-the-world scenarios, proposing a rogue’s  gallery of corrupt leaders and a host of chilling, apocalyptic theories.  Disillusioned by the crippled state of our Church and our world, people  are increasingly placing faith in prophecies that claim to know details  and dates about upcoming chastisements.

Will the  “final confrontation” include unprecedented bloodshed or the subtle  trickery of seduction (or both)? Have the current intellectual,  political, and sexual “liberation” movements — including within the  Church — created the platform required for the Antichrist to emerge?

In  an age of diabolical disorientation, this captivating book provides  much-needed clarity on relevant biblical prophecies — from Old Testament  times to St. Paul and Revelation — and writings of early Church Fathers  and Doctors of the Church, including Sts. Augustine, Gregory the Great,  Jerome, and Thomas Aquinas.

This prescient book will  enlighten you on whether there is more than one Antichrist, the types of  leaders and societies that Cardinal Newman believed would be  forerunners of the Antichrist, and how long the Antichrist will reign.  You will also explore the Church’s teaching on millenarianism and the  prospect that the reign of the Antichrist is drawing closer.

A  valuable and timely resource, this book will aid you in understanding  views on the Antichrist through history and how they are linked to  predictions about the end of the world, the Second Coming of Christ, the  role of false prophets, and the devices the evil one uses to cultivate  apostasy. You will also discover:

This  book will empower and encourage you to hold fast to your beliefs, bear  witness to the truth, and defend against false teachings that subvert  the fortitude of the faithful.

https://www.sophiainstitute.com/products/item/the-antichrist

Heather Kelly joined KSL in April 2012 and took the circuitous route to get here. She received a degree in Aviation Management from Westminster College and worked for 9 years in the airline industry. After realizing the highlight of her day was bumping people off oversold flights, she decided to find a career that was more rewarding and less chance of being yelled at by passengers.

She was lucky enough to be hired at a veterinary clinic where she could pursue her life-long interest in animal care. After being trained on-the-job as a veterinary technician, she quickly rose up the ladder and became Hospital Director of two clinics simultaneously. Unfortunately, when the recession hit, the clinics closed.

So, Heather moved onto her third career, in broadcasting, using her Minor in Theater Arts. Heather believes she found the place she was meant to be all along. After reporting traffic for Total Traffic Network for six years, she finally made it to KSL NewsRadio and can be heard telling people ‘where to go and how to get there’ as part of Triple Team Traffic every weekday from 5-9 AM on Utah’s Morning News. Heather fills in as Associate Producer and News Reporter when needed and loves putting a news story together. She is also the host of “Money Making Sense” where she discusses all things money in a down-to-earth approach. Click here to listen now.

Contact Heather at [email protected].

Greenice is a web development agency, specializing in developing custom feature-rich apps and websites with complex back-end. The company's entrepreneurs bring their ideas to life with deep technical knowledge, meticulous research, planning, and execution. The company initially was founded in 2007 in Ukraine. In 2022, members of the team relocated to Warsaw, Polland, while still serving clients from around the world and with co-founder Sergii Opanaskeno remaining in Kyiv.

The Greenice journey began in 2007 when Opanasenko and Ismet Beckirov, two freelance programmers from Ukraine, decided to join forces. Their first client was an American jewelry company that needed a new website. The project turned out to be so big that Sergey and Ismet had to hire people to assist them. Since then, the popularity of Greenice grew into a growing, dynamic team.

One pivotal moment in its development came when Greenice became an Offshore Development Center for ACB, an American Inc. 500 corporation. This turned into a decade-long successful relationship.

Website: https://greenice.net/

Jack Cashill is an independent writer, documentary producer, and media consultant.

Jack has written for Fortune, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Weekly Standard, AmericanThinker, WND, The American Spectator, the Washington Times, and serves as executive editor for Ingram’s, a regional business magazine.

Jack has published fifteen books under his own name and collaborated discreetly on twenty others. He has produced a score of documentaries for regional PBS and national cable channels.

Jack has a Ph.D. from Purdue University in American studies, has taught media and literature at Purdue and at Kansas City area universities, and served as a Fulbright lecturer in France.

website: cashill.com